Hi folks! Reminder: Cloud Foundry Summit CFP closes May 21st.

From the Last Few Weeks:

• CF Summit co-chairs have been announced! 
• An update on Bionic Stemcell work
• Seth Boyles (VMware) was confirmed as the new lead for the CAPI team.
• Alex Berez (VMware) was confirmed as the new lead for the CLI team. 
• Read the App Runtime PMC notes from last week’s meeting. Or watch the video.
• Jesse Weaver is stepping down as lead for the Logging & Metrics team, and moving to a different role at VMware. Benjamin Fuller (VMware) has been nominated to take over as lead for that project.
• Here’s the video from Tuesday’s cf-for-k8s SIG meeting, with some in-depth discussion on the Vision for CF on Kubernetes doc.
• A very thoughtful essay, largely about Cloud Foundry: Is 2021 the Year of the Paas? – Ruurd
• And, a blog post from James Hunt of Stark & Wayne reflecting on (not quite) A Decade with Cloud Foundry
• Watch Ram & Shedrack’s most recent livestream on CI/CD with Circle CI and Cloud Foundry.

Notable Releases:

• cf-for-k8s
• v3.1.0
• Docs have been moved to the cf-for-k8s.io website.
• Istio has been upgraded to an in-support version, with an additional upgrade to follow.
• v4.0.0
• The config block resource_validator_certificate for Eirini has been removed. It was introduced in v3.1.0 via the Eirini bump, so this is regarded as a breaking change.
• This release supports mitigating the previously introduced interface change and preparation for an additional Istio update.
• v4.1.0
• Istio bump
• Note: Istio does not support jump upgrades, so you MUST upgrade to v4.0 before upgrading to v4.1
• BOSH v271.8.0
• gosigar v1.2.0
• diego-release v2.50.0
• cf-networking-release v2.36.0
• quarks-operator v7.2.3 and v7.2.4

Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):

• CF Technical Governance meeting – May 7 at 8 am
• Bi-weekly Runtime PMC meeting – May 11 at 10:30 am
• Office Hours: CAPI – May 12 at 9 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting – May 14 at 8 am
• Office Hours: Logging and Metrics – May 14 at 10:30 am
• CF-for-K8s SIG meeting – May 18 at 8:30 am
• May CAB call – May 19 at 8 am
• CF Summit CFP closes – May 21 at 11:59 pm 
• CF Summit – July 21-22

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details.

Ecosystem and General News:

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU is happening this week, May 4-7  
• The Insiders Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2021 – The NewStack
• Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42 – NYTimes
• How a University Got Itself Banned from the Linux Kernel – The Verge
• Google Cloud Brings in $4B in Q1, Up 46% – ZDNet