Red Hat and Fedora: Project Hummingbird and statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2025,
updated Nov 21, 2025

• SDx Central ☛ Red Hat previews Project Hummingbird: impenetrable images boosting the software supply chain

  Red Hat has launched a preview of Project Hummingbird, a catalog of minimal, hardened container images to help address the need for "zero-CVE" applications.

  Available as an early access program for Red Hat customers, the project intends to reduce attack surfaces and bolster supply chain confidence by bridging the gap between accelerating deployment and improving application security.

  According to the open source giant, the project does this by offering production ready, micro-sized container images stripped of non-essential components, including languages and runtimes such as Go, Java, and Node, critical developer databases like MariaDB, and web servers and proxies including Nginx, Caddy, and others.

• Fedora Project ☛ A statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL

  First, my immediate goal is to get the Fedora ChangeProposal that was submitted to make Flathub the default remote for some of the Atomic desktops accepted on reproposal. I believe implementing the idea expressed in that ChangeProposal is the best available option for the Atomic desktops that help us down the path I want to see us walking together.

  There seems to be wide appeal from both the maintainers of specific Fedora outputs, and the subset of Fedora users of those desktop outputs, that using Flathub is the best tradeoff available for the defaults. I am explicitly not in favor of shuttering the Fedora flatpaks, but I do see value in changing the default remote, where it is reasonable and desirable to do so. I continue to be sensitive to the idea that Fedora Flatpaks can exist because it is delivering value to a subset of users, even when it’s not the default remote but still targeting an overlapping set of applications serving different use cases. I don’t view this as a zero-sum situation; the important discussion right now is about what the defaults should be for specific Fedora outputs.

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• Hummingbird: Red Hat’s Answer to Alpine, Ubuntu Chiseled, Wolfi

  Linux powerhouse Red Hat has unveiled Project Hummingbird, a new initiative designed to accelerate cloud native development by delivering micro-sized container images for enterprise environments.