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Compliance

Jun 25, 2026

Japan's Active Cyber Defense Law: What It Means for Open Source and EOL Software

How Japan's landmark Active Cyber Defense Law creates new obligations around unsupported software — and how HeroDevs keeps you compliant.

EOL Software

Jun 24, 2026

The Ghost in the Dependency Tree: The End-of-Life Risk Your Scanners Miss

HeroDevs' Isaac Wuest joined the OpenSSF's "What's in the SOSS" podcast to talk about the blind spot in CVE-based scanning, the difference between attested end of life and maintainer abandonment, and what to do about the end-of-life packages hiding in your dependency tree.

Security

Jun 23, 2026

CVE-2026-54512/54513: Jackson PolymorphicTypeValidator Bypass

How generic type parameters and array component types slip past a correctly configured BasicPolymorphicTypeValidator allowlist to reach gadget instantiation

EOL Software

Jun 23, 2026

PostgreSQL EOL Dates: Every Version's Release & End-of-Life Timeline

A complete reference for every PostgreSQL major version, its five-year support window, and what end-of-life means for the teams still running older releases in production.

Security

Jun 23, 2026

AryStinger Turns 4,300 Forgotten Routers Into a Recon-and-Proxy Network

When end-of-life stops being a software problem and becomes the whole device, and nobody is shipping firmware anymore.

Risk Mitigation

Jun 23, 2026

What a Disaster Recovery Gameday Taught Us About Resilience

How Controlled Failure Simulations Build Engineering Confidence and Process Reliability

Compliance

Jun 23, 2026

Your EOL Open Source Is a PCI DSS Compliance Problem — Here's How to Fix It

PCI DSS 4.0's Requirement 12.3.4 is now fully enforceable, and it targets end-of-life open source directly — here's what it means for teams handling payment card data, and how to close the audit gap.

EOL Software

Jun 23, 2026

Node.js Version Support: EOL Dates and Latest Releases (July 2026)

End-of-life means a technology no longer receives support, like vulnerability fixes, from the original creator.

EOL Software

Jun 23, 2026

What You Need to Know: Spring Framework’s End-of-Life Dates

A complete reference for every Spring Framework release timeline, and what end-of-life actually means for the enterprise Java teams still running 5.3 and 6.1 in production.

Announcements

Jun 22, 2026

HeroDevs Joins Commonhaus Foundation Open Source Sustainability Initiative as Founding Member

HeroDevs joins as a founding Gold Partner, bringing Never-Ending Support to end-of-life software across the Commonhaus ecosystem

Risk Mitigation

Jun 18, 2026

Spring CVEs Didn't Slow Down. June 2026 Brought 67.

The spring surge kept climbing, and the versions Broadcom no longer evaluates are where the real exposure now lives.

Security

Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2026-41855: Spring Framework JMS Jackson Deserialization Flaw

How Jackson-based JMS message converters allow gadget class instantiation in untrusted broker environments

Compliance

Jun 17, 2026

Spring Boot 3.5 EOL: Scanner Findings, Audit Risk, and Remediation Options

Migrate, self-patch, get covered, or accept the risk — each is right in the right situation, and each breaks when the timeline doesn't match

Security

Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2026-41003: Spring Security SAML XSS via RelyingPartyRegistration

CWE-79 in Spring Security's SAML 2.0 service-provider components writes unencoded values into auto-generated HTML forms

EOL Software

Jun 16, 2026

NumPy 2.0 Reaches End of Life on June 17, 2026

Why an unsupported version of the library beneath pandas, scikit-learn, and PyTorch is a foundational risk