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Newsletter: Our 5-year anniversary, PHP2Shell, Sovereign Tech Resilience relaunch and more
Email on 29 October: Our 5-year anniversary, PHP2Shell, Sovereign Tech Resilience relaunch and more On 12 October, we celebrated our five-year anniversary with guests and friends from policy, open source, government, industry, civil society, and academia. The critical vulnerability PHP2Shell sent shockwaves through the internet, reminding us all how important long-term investments into open source components are for our collective security. In 2021, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) commissioned a small team to work out, in a feasibility study, how public investment in open digital infrastructure could be designed. To celebrate all of this, more than 150 guests, policy makers, open source maintainers, representatives from government, industry, civil society, and research, came together on 12 October in Berlin. You can find it on our brand-new publications page, that collects all our publications from the last five years in one place.Visit publications page On 21 October 2026, the PHP project released fixes for two critical security vulnerabilities, collectively known as PHP2Shell. For the two existing services, technical debt management and security audits, we are increasing the number of available service providers to expand capacity and cover a wider range of programming languages and ecosystems.