Scheduled Maintenance: Database Upgrade on February 27
On Tuesday, February 27 at 9:00 CET (8:00 UTC, 4:00 New York, 21:00 New Zealand), we will upgrade our production database to a higher-performance plan. As usage and data volume have grown, this upgrade is necessary to improve performance, reduce timeouts, and increase overall stability. During the migration, the platformContinue Reading
Release: Sidebar Reorganization – Part 2
We are moving forward with our sidebar reorganization campaign! We are still primarily focusing on organization dashboards (which have the highest financial complexity) and gradually introducing changes to individual and collective dashboards. As a reminder, the intention behind this redesign is to make the platform more coherent, intuitive, and welcoming,Continue Reading
Reminder: SSL Certificate Validity Is Dropping to 200 Days
Certificate validity periods are getting shorter — is your team ready to keep up with the new demands? Two options for managing shorter certificates… There’s no way around it — certificate lifespans are getting significantly shorter: Validity periods for SSL/TLS certificates will be nearly halved from 398 days to 200Continue Reading
Code Signing Certificates’ Lifespans to Drop to One Year
Starting March 1, the lifespans of software-signing digital certificates will be reduced from 39 months to 15 months. Order a 2- or 3-year certificate ASAP before they’re officially gone Editor’s Note: Major CAs, including DigiCert and Sectigo, are rolling out these changes ahead of the March 1 deadline. Shorter codeContinue Reading
Y25 Cycle 7 Engineering Progress Report
Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. Cycle Seven In Review This cycle ran from November 2025 through January 2026 and focused on finalizing major financial sustainability feature work, improving user onboarding and security, and tidying up platform infrastructure.Continue Reading
Call for Testimonials: Get featured on our new homepage
Hi everyone, We are currently refreshing our marketing pages to better explain what Open Collective is and, more importantly, why this community matters. The heart of our platform isn’t the code—it’s the Collectives doing the work and the Fiscal Hosts supporting them. To help us welcome more people into theContinue Reading
OFi / Open Collective at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels
Some of our team, and members of the OFi and Open Collective family, will be in Brussels next week for FOSDEM 2026 (Saturday, January 31, 2026 and Sunday, February 1, 2026). We would love to meet in person, catch up with friends, and connect with new people who are curiousContinue Reading
Dispatch from PyPI Land: A Year (and a Half!) as the Inaugural PyPI Support Specialist
Hello there! I am Maria, the inaugural PyPI Support Specialist. I go by “Thespi-Brain” on GitHub. I wanted to provide a dispatch of how this past year (and a half!) has been regarding my role and PyPI. PyPI has now reached over a million users and has over 700,000 projects.Continue Reading
Release: Sidebar Reorganization V1
We’ve kickstarted our sidebar reorganization campaign. We will gradually introduce improvements to the sidebar over the next few cycles (first and primarily for organization dashboards and then gradually to individual and collective dashboards). Sidebar redesign Firstly our sidebar has had a makeover! You may have noticed that the sidebarContinue Reading
PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to look back at another busy year for the Python Package Index. This year, we’ve focused on delivering critical security enhancements, rolling out powerful new features for organizations, improving the overall user experience for the millions of developers who rely on PyPIContinue Reading