Ensuring your packages and container images remain secure over time can be challenging, especially as new vulnerabilities surface daily and can emerge long after a package is first introduced. With Cloudsmith, you can now set up recurring security scans of your packages and images to check for new vulnerabilities and use that updated information in Cloudsmith’s policy manager to notify users or quarantine the package.

For customers who use Cloudsmith for Dart packages, Cloudsmith now supports caching from upstream repositories including pub.dev, the official package repository for Dart. This simplifies handling of public Dart packages and enables key improvements such as package vulnerability scanning to enhance and better secure your package workflows. Prior t…

Cloudsmith now automatically generates SBOMs during package synchronization of container images. This provides a CycloneDX format SBOM accessible via the API, and significantly quickens container image re-scan times. What are SBOMs? SBOMs (or Software Bill Of Materials) serve as an inventory of components comprising a software package. Based on a…

Cloudsmith has extended our support for security scanning to include Dart packages, helping customers who use Cloudsmith for Dart packages ship safe software. Cloudsmith’s security scanning checks for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Package vulnerability scanning is a key step in securing your software delivery pipelines, and using pa…

Cloudsmith’s support for Conda repositories now includes the ability to modify Conda repository metadata through repodata patching, giving customers a way to update package dependency constraints without republishing all packages. Repodata patching provides a resolution when updates to a package’s dependencies introduce breaking changes or other i…

If your organization has a policy to rotate API keys, Cloudsmith can now help you enforce this using our API Key Policy, a new policy type for Ultra customers. Using this policy you can: Specify a maximum age for API keys throughout all accounts in your workspace. Enforce optional automatic API key refresh, which will automatically refresh any A…