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Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks

Summary PyPI now checks for expired domains to prevent domain resurrection attacks,a type of supply-chain attack where someone buys an expired domainand uses it to take over PyPI accounts through password resets. These changes improve PyPI’s overall account security posture,making it harder for attackers to exploit expired domain namesto gainContinue Reading

PyPI now serves project status markers in API responses

PyPI now serves project status markers in its standardindex APIs. This allows downstream consumers (like Python package installers andindex mirrors) to retrieve project statuses programmatically and use them toinform users when a project is archived or quarantined. Summary PyPI has implemented project status markers as proposed and accepted in PEPContinue Reading

RSS Feeds for Updates

You can now subscribe to your favorite collectives’ updates using RSS feeds! RSS is an open standard that lets you get automatic notifications whenever a collective posts new updates, similar to following someone on social media, but delivered directly to your favorite news reader app or RSS client. Since RSSContinue Reading

An Update on Virtual Cards

We know many of you, both Fiscal Hosts and Collective admins, are eager to see virtual cards return to the Open Collective platform. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make this happen, but it’s proven to be more complex than we initially hoped. We’ve learned a lot alongContinue Reading

Important Update for Accountants: Enhancing Ledger Accuracy and Transaction Exports

We’re rolling out an update to improve the clarity and reliability of our ledger, especially for accounting purposes. This will make tracking changes like edits and refunds much more straightforward in your transaction exports.  This announcement explains: Why we’re making this change: To address issues with how edited transactions wereContinue Reading

New Expense Submission Flow - Public Beta

Over the past few cycles, we have been working towards upgrading and integrating a New Expense Submission flow into the Dashboard. We have tested and trialed our work and are ready to gather user feedback! To activate the public beta, navigate to your profile image in the top right-hand cornerContinue Reading