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+# Spinnaker Update
+
+* AWS SDK2 is slowly going into various services.  
+* Spring boot 3 is merged, fixes have been applied for auth and is now considered stable
+* The spinnaker docs on installation have been rewritten.  The old installation tool (Halyard) is deprecated and removed from most documentation.  Migration scripts from halyard are provided.  The default installation is native using kustomize and an example repository with configurations is available.
+* Spinnaker is moving all future images from google's artifact storage to GHCR due to GAR cost spend.  You can find [the images for the spinnaker microservices here](https://github.com/orgs/spinnaker/packages) 
+
+We have had multiple releases since the last update and are getting ready for a new release with some new secret manager features, improved performance features and similar updates.
+
+
+## Features and release
+Currently supported releases and release notes are available here:
+https://spinnaker.io/docs/releases/versions/
+
+
+## Adoption updates
+
+No major known changes in adoption.  However, dashboards and reports showing spinnaker installation and utilization have been fixed [and are available again on the stats pages](https://spinnaker.io/docs/community/stay-informed/statistics/) and show continued usage and lots of activity.  
+
+WE THINK this data MAY not be entirely accurate at this time.  Example:
+* January shows 6,202 instances, 349k applications, 20 million deployments.
+* February shows 6,687 instances of spinnaker running, 12 million deployments, 232,000 applications.  An increase of 10% on instances.
+* March shows 7324 instances, 236,000 applications, and 20 million deployments.  
+
+The data is inconsistent and could be tests or restarts or similar data that somewhat randomizes the results on statistics reporting.  
+
+
+## Contribution trends
+
+The number of pull requests is fairly steady at this point in time:
+* https://spinnaker.devstats.cd.foundation/d/74/contributions-chart?orgId=1&from=now-1y&to=now-2d
+We ARE seeing some new contributions from a number of companies and some new contributors.  
+* https://spinnaker.devstats.cd.foundation/d/22/prs-authors-table?orgId=1&var-period_name=Last%20quarter&var-repogroup_name=All
+
+## Security updates
+New vulnerabilities HAVE been published.  [These are critical and high](https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker/security/advisories?state=published).  It's HIGHLY recommended to upgrade as soon as possible to a supported release.
+
+## Infrastructure updates
+Per above, we are moving all docker images out of GAR to GHCR due to cost of image pulls from the community, as GHCR is free for open source projects and given our CI is all in GHA, this was a simple migration path.
+
+## Fun facts
+* We had our first blog post in 4 years!   See the [spinnaker blog at https://blog.spinnaker.io/](https://blog.spinnaker.io/) for details!  We're ALSO doing a spinnaker workshop soon
+to talk about installation and deployments.  
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 - [Q1 2025](2025-q1.md) - This covers both Q4 2024 and Q1 2025.  Due to the holidays and scheduling 2024-q4 was skipped
 - [Q2 2025](2025-q2.md) 
 - [Q3 2025](2025-q3.md)
+- [Q4 2026](2026-q1.md) - major updates here
 
 
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