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Notes from building OpenVet — a public registry for software supply-chain audits.

Dev log PE Patrick Elsen 2026-06-01

Reactive vs proactive supply-chain security

Why OpenVet bets on proactive audits instead of CVEs, SBOMs, signed releases, and dependency cooldowns.

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Announcement PE Patrick Elsen 2026-05-31

OpenVet 0.6.0 Release

OpenVet 0.6.0 is out. The OpenVet repo is now the first project whose direct dependencies are fully audited. The release adds openvet guard (block a build until policy passes), openvet info (a man-page-shaped view of one dependency), per-direct-dependency narratives on audits, and project root auto-discovery.

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Dev log PE Patrick Elsen 2026-05-30

Licensing of audits hosted on the OpenVet Registry

Why the OpenVet Registry will require audits to be published under CC0 or CC-BY-4.0, and how that decision is encoded in the audit data structure.

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Dev log PE Patrick Elsen 2026-05-23

Supply-Chain Update #1

Summarized articles about software supply-chain security, vulnerabilities, attacks and mitigations from early May 2026

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Announcement PE Patrick Elsen 2026-05-18

OpenVet Registry: first preview deployment

The OpenVet Registry is now live at openvet.org as a preview deployment.

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Announcement PE Patrick Elsen 2026-05-18

OpenVet 0.5.0 Release

OpenVet 0.5.0 is out. Driven by dogfooding 111 audits of OpenVet's own dependencies: an audit linter, an OpenVet query command, and a deliberate wire-format reshape before 1.0.

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Dev log PE Patrick Elsen 2026-05-17

Hello, OpenVet

Why I'm building OpenVet, what it does, and what to expect from this blog.

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