Contributing HeroDevs engineers and security expertise will create faster remediations and a stronger open-source community for enterprises
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HeroDevs, the trusted leader in commercial support for end-of-life open source software, today announced it has joined Akrites, the Linux Foundation-backed initiative coordinating industry-wide remediation and disclosure of open source vulnerabilities.
Over the past year, AI models have surfaced a growing wave of potential vulnerabilities in open source software. Akrites mission is to de-duplicate and triage those findings, manage disclosure under embargo, and connect maintainers with dedicated security response support, including, in some cases, naming a maintainer of last resort when a project no longer has anyone available to fix it.
By joining Akrites and contributing engineering time to SIRT activities, HeroDevs adds their deep expertise in vulnerability discovery and remediation across a wide span of open source libraries. Their history of assisting downstream consumers get long-term support meshes with Akrites mission of stepping in as a maintainer of last resort for critical projects that are underresourced or that have been abandoned, fixing issues on behalf of the community rather than leaving users exposed.
“The exploit window has effectively gone negative: attacks are landing before a CVE is ever disclosed,” said Aaron Mitchell, CEO of HeroDevs. “Discovery isn’t the bottleneck anymore. Getting a validated fix out before the rest of the world knows there’s a problem is. Akrites gives us a seat at that table, and it lets us formally step in when a project’s maintainer is gone and nobody else will.”
For HeroDevs customers, membership reinforces the company’s “Secure in Place” approach to open source risk: rather than forcing a migration off end-of-life software on someone else’s timeline, HeroDevs keeps it patched, compliant, and secure for as long as an organization needs it.
About HeroDevs HeroDevs is the trusted leader in providing secure, never-ending support for deprecated open source software. The company’s mission is to keep critical technologies running smoothly, securely, and in compliance long after their official end-of-life. From AngularJS to .NET, HeroDevs’ Never-Ending Support (NES) solutions give businesses the freedom to plan migrations on their own terms while staying protected against vulnerabilities and compliance risks. Serving industries where security and uptime are non-negotiable, including finance, healthcare, and government, HeroDevs has earned the trust of more than 900 companies, including nearly half of the Fortune 100. Learn more at herodevs.com.
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