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Overview
End-of-life software continues to be widely downloaded and deployed, even in 2026, leaving applications exposed to high-risk vulnerabilities long after official support ends.
Together, Sonatype and HeroDevs give engineering, security, and IT leadership a pragmatic path to risk reduction: combine Sonatype’s unrivaled software supply chain intelligence with HeroDevs’ fully patched versions of End of Life Open Source Software your business relies on.
Take action today, not just get alerted tomorrow.
Together, Sonatype and HeroDevs give engineering, security, and IT leadership a pragmatic path to risk reduction: combine Sonatype’s unrivaled software supply chain intelligence with HeroDevs’ fully patched versions of End of Life Open Source Software your business relies on.
Take action today, not just get alerted tomorrow.
Why This Partnership Matters
Legacy OSS remains one of the most persistent sources of risk in modern software.
Enter Sonatype + HeroDevs: an operational collaboration that helps teams:
Enter Sonatype + HeroDevs: an operational collaboration that helps teams:
Understand OSS risk across actionable telemetry
Replace dangerous components with maintained, secure alternatives
Reduce remediation timelines without major rewrites
Protect applications long after upstream support ends
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Embedded Remediation Guidance: Maven Central
In Maven Central, packages marked as EOL with Never-Ending Support (NES) available expose their unsupported status and provide a direct path to patch known vulnerabilities.
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Embedded Remediation Guidance: Sonatype IQ and HeroDevs
Sonatype-provided tooling will scan your existing IQ instance and generate a report that directly displays the overlap between your IT estate and secure HeroDevs NES updates. Quickly learn how to drastically reduce your EOL exposure–all without any engineering resources required.
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Maintained Backports for EOL OSS
HeroDevs provides commercial maintenance, security backports, and SLAs for select EOL OSS packages—closing the gap between vulnerability discovery and real-world remediation. This means:
Security patches, even when the OSS community has stopped maintaining the project
Eliminate forced rewrites
Lower operational risk across applications still depending on legacy software
Security You Can Act On
Reduce Real Risk Fast
Stop treating EOL OSS as an inevitable risk and start remediating it with supported versions that fit your release cadence.
Align Risk Reduction With Engineering Priorities
Give engineering teams options that don’t require costly refactors—so they can focus on priority initiatives.
Operational Confidence for Security Leaders
Security and compliance teams gain measurable reduction in unpatched exposure while keeping audit and regulatory obligations in check.
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Partner Benefits for Sonatype Customers
Actionable at the Point of Alert
Rather than just telling you what’s vulnerable, Sonatype + HeroDevs shows you how to fix it with supported replacements that match your existing dependency graph.
Faster Mean Time to Remediation
Teams can rapidly resolve alerts on packages that would otherwise require substantial engineering lift to fix.
Deeper Ecosystem Investment
This partnership extends the value of your Sonatype investment—bringing secure OSS life-cycle support directly to your development standards.
Testimonials
What Leaders Are Saying
“The prevalence of legacy open source components, like old Spring Boot and Struts branches, proves that security teams need more than alerts; they need paths to practical remediation. Together with HeroDevs, we’re helping organizations close that gap and reduce real-world risk even when upstream support has ended.”
Brian Fox
Co-Founder and CTO
@
Sonatype
Get Started
Whether you’re prioritizing compliance, risk reduction, or developer velocity, Sonatype + HeroDevs offers a complementary set of capabilities you can put to work today.
