# Anchore Open Source Weekly Report - Week 24, 2025

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**Created:** [June 16, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/anchore-open-source-weekly-report-week-24-2025/457 "2025-06-16T06:51:29Z")\
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# Anchore Open Source Weekly Report

This report covers the community activity in Anchore Open Source Projects from June 9, 2025 to June 13, 2025.

## Executive Summary

The Anchore team wrapped up a busy week with 25 issues and pull requests resolved across the ecosystem. A major highlight was the successful integration of Echo OS support across multiple projects, marking a significant expansion of vulnerability detection capabilities for this emerging Linux distribution. The team also addressed several critical container runtime issues related to nonroot user configurations, quickly responding to community feedback with fixes that maintain both security and usability.

## Weekly Metrics

| Metric | Community | Staff | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Issues Closed | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Pull Requests Merged | 3 | 14 | 17 |
| Bug Fixes | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Enhancements | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Chores | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Key Achievements

### 1. Echo OS Support Successfully Integrated Across the Ecosystem

The week saw the completion of a comprehensive effort to add Echo OS support to Anchore’s vulnerability detection capabilities. Community contributor Ori (orizerah) successfully delivered three coordinated pull requests: PR [#2647](https://github.com/anchore/grype/pull/2647) adding Echo OS to Grype, PR [#815](https://github.com/anchore/vunnel/pull/815) adding the Echo provider to Vunnel, and PR [#572](https://github.com/anchore/grype-db/pull/572) integrating Echo OS into the vulnerability database. This coordinated effort demonstrates excellent collaboration between community contributors and the Anchore team, significantly expanding vulnerability detection coverage for users running Echo OS-based containers.

### 2. Nonroot Container Runtime Issues Resolved

Multiple critical issues related to Docker container runtime changes were quickly addressed this week. Issues [#2721](https://github.com/anchore/grype/issues/2721) and [#2720](https://github.com/anchore/grype/issues/2720) highlighted problems introduced when Grype’s container images were switched to nonroot users, breaking compatibility with Docker socket bindings and file output permissions. The team responded rapidly with PRs [#3998](https://github.com/anchore/syft/pull/3998) and [#2723](https://github.com/anchore/grype/pull/2723), providing separate nonroot image variants while maintaining backward compatibility for existing workflows.

### 3. Enhanced Enterprise Integration Support

Staff member Alex Goodman delivered important improvements for enterprise users with PRs [#3997](https://github.com/anchore/syft/pull/3997) and [#3973](https://github.com/anchore/syft/pull/3973), which enable Syft to properly decode JSON files modified by enterprise Anchorectl installations. This enhancement improves interoperability between open source and enterprise Anchore deployments, making it easier for organizations to integrate both tools in their security workflows.

### 4. Bitnami Provider Enabled by Default

The grype-db project saw the enablement of both Bitnami and minimOS providers by default through PR [#587](https://github.com/anchore/grype-db/pull/587). This change significantly expands out-of-the-box vulnerability detection capabilities for users working with Bitnami-packaged applications, addressing community requests for better coverage of popular containerized software distributions.

### 5. Database and Tooling Improvements

Several important infrastructure improvements were delivered, including CVSS version fixes in vector strings (PR [#591](https://github.com/anchore/grype-db/pull/591)), database search enhancements with string severity support (PR [#2730](https://github.com/anchore/grype/pull/2730)), and SPDX package filtering improvements (PR [#3981](https://github.com/anchore/syft/pull/3981)). These changes improve the accuracy and usability of vulnerability data across the ecosystem.

### 6. Community Issue Resolution

The team successfully resolved several long-standing community issues, including false positive reports for CVE-2025-5702 (issue [#2718](https://github.com/anchore/grype/issues/2718)), database existence errors (issues [#2711](https://github.com/anchore/grype/issues/2711) and [#3969](https://github.com/anchore/syft/issues/3969)), and SBOM cataloger upstream package issues (issue [#3662](https://github.com/anchore/syft/issues/3662)). The resolution of these issues demonstrates the team’s commitment to addressing community-reported problems promptly.

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_Note: This report is based on issues and pull requests closed during June 9-13, 2025. Additional work is ongoing in open issues and pull requests not covered in this report._

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