From the Last Few Weeks:

• Join us tomorrow, Wednesday 4/21, at the monthly CAB call (8 am PDT), when we’ll have a presentation on the current state of Paketo and Cloud Native Buildpacks!
• And, shortly thereafter, Ram and Shedrack are running a livestream at 9:30 am PDT: “Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines on Kubernetes with Tekton and Paketo”
• Please vote for CF Summit Track Co-Chairs by next Monday 4/26! 
• Read the Vision for CF on Kubernetes doc, announced here. 
• Here is the video for the April 13 CF App Runtime meeting, and the meeting notes. 
• Amelia Downs (VMware) has been confirmed as the new Networking project lead.
• Guiseppe Capizzi (VMware) has been confirmed as the new Eirini project lead.
• The CAPI team has started to hold monthly office hours, on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, at 9 am PDT.

Notable Releases:

• eirini-release v4.0.0

• Some Configmap properties have new default values to work with cf-for-k8s out of the box.
• KubeCF-specific components have been removed.
• numerous other features and breaking changes
• cf-k8s-logging v0.7.0
• cf-k8s-networking vv0.5.0 (draft)
• cf-networking-release v2.36.0 and silk release v2.36.0
• metric-proxy v1.3.0
• UAA v75.1.0
• haproxy-boshrelease v10.5.0
• quarks-operator v7.2.2

Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):

• April CAB call – April 21 at 8 am
• Livestream: “Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines on Kubernetes with Tekton and Paketo” – April 21 at 9:30 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting – April 23 at 8 am
• Bi-weekly Runtime PMC meeting – April 27 at 10:30 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting – April 30 at 8 am
• CF-for-K8s SIG meeting – May 4 at 8:30 am
• Bi-weekly Runtime PMC meeting – May 11 at 10:30 am
• Office Hours: CAPI – May 12 at 9 am
• Office Hours: Logging and Metrics – May 14 at 10:30 am
• Summit CFP closes May 21 
• CF Summit – July 21-22

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details!

Ecosystem and General News:

• Why Kubernetes Developer Ecosystem Needs a PaaS – Forbes
• Master, Slave and the Fight Over Offensive Terms in Computing – NY Times
• What is Istio and Why does Kubernetes Need It? – The NewStack
• Loft Labs Open-Sources Virtual Cluster Technology for Kubernetes – Container Journal