Reminder: Cloud Foundry Summit CFP closes this Friday, May 21. In some previous cycles we have extended this date, but we won’t be doing so this time - so get those proposals in!

 From the Last Few Weeks

• We’re holding an election for the new Cloud Foundry Technical Oversight Committee, a big step towards adopting this new, more democratic, technical governance model.  Read all about it here and nominate your peers!
• Ram and Shedrack hosted a live-streamed panel with the Cloud Foundry Summit track co-chairs (and me). Did I mention CFP closes this Friday?  
• The Cloud Foundry Summit Unconference has been scheduled - this is always a lot of fun and I highly encourage you all to attend this July 20 (the day before CF Summit).
• Join us at the monthly CAB call this Wednesday May 19, 8am PDT; we’ll be getting a presentation on Carousel, a cli tool for the rotation of credentials in Credhub, from Stark & Wayne.
• Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Version 1.1 released for GA! And there was much rejoicing.
• Here’s an interesting conversation on buildpacks for Rust.
• Read Ram’s new tutorial: How to Build Cloud Native Deployment Pipelines, in Container Journal. And, check out this slick infographic: Haves vs. Needs on Dev Teams.
• Shedrack sits down with Brian Douglas of JAMstack radio and chats about JAMstack, Cloud Foundry, and more. And here’s his new blog post on Cloud Foundry & JavaScipt Package Managers.
• TFIR interview with Chip Childers: Understanding CI/CD from Cloud Foundry’s Perspective

Notable Releases

• cf-for-k8s v4.2.0
• cf-java-client v4.15.0 
• loggregator-release v106.6.0
• loggregator-agent-release v6.2.1
• log-cache-release v2.11.0

Dates To Remember (times U.S. Pacific)

• May CAB call - May 19 at 8 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting - May 21 at 8 am
• CF Summit CFP closes - May 21 at 11:59 pm 
• Bi-weekly Runtime PMC meeting - May 25 at 10:30 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting - May 28 at 8 am
• CF Summit - July 21-22

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details.

Ecosystem and General News:

• Ahead of Dell’s spin out, VMware appoints longtime exec Raghu Raghuram as its new CEO - TechCrunch
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 YouTube playlist
• This Week in Programming: What’s the Takeaway of KubeCon EU 2021? - The NewStack
• The Cloud Native Landscape: Observability and Analysis - The NewStack
• Linus Torvalds on Why Open Source Solves the Biggest Problems - The NewStack
• IBM Think 2021 - All In On Hybrid Cloud - Forbes