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ActiveState Platform - November 2025Nov 12, 2025
Features
Introduced a Public Image Catalog, offering secure, minimal container images with low-to-no CVEs. This catalog is designed for development, deployment, and popular open-source applications. It enhances the experience for both current and prospective users, allowing them to easily browse, evaluate, and pull the latest free container images.
The Catalog will include a summary of each container, including:
Latest published date.
Image size.
Image architecture (x86).
README.
CVE count by severity.
VEX information.
Pull commands.
Links to documentation.
SBOM data.
Showcase past versions.
Component information will be included for each container, including:
Name.
Version(s).
License(s).
Total count of packages in image.
Security comparison against community version of the image (vuln count, size, SLA).
Image Customization
All images can be customized to meet your needs. Customization may include:
Add packages, configurations, or secure language libraries.
Access specific tags and image variants.
Meet compliance requirements (FIPS, STIG, and more).
ActiveState Platform - April 2025Major versionApr 29, 2025
Features
Create a Project by Ingesting an SBOM:
ActiveState projects can now be created from an SBOM file. Compatible SBOMs can be generated by third-party services like Snyk, Trivy, Syft, and more, or by using the ActiveState SBOM generator.
View the Breaking Changes Report:
When you make changes to the ingredients of a project, you can now view the Breaking Changes report to gain insight into how those changes might break your code.