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Announcing the Composer & Packagist Sponsorship Program
Acquired by Vista Equity Partners
Published 30 September 2026
WHAT HAPPENED
Packagist.org and Composer launched a formal sponsorship program with dedicated public sponsor pages at packagist.org/sponsor and getcomposer.org/sponsor.
WHO IS INVOLVED
Sonatype joined the program alongside Private Packagist, Aikido, AWS, Socket, Bunny, Upsun, and Tideways as launch sponsors of the Composer and Packagist ecosystem.
WHY IT MATTERS
The sponsorship program provides sustainable funding for critical PHP development infrastructure that has recorded over 200 billion package installations across more than 469,000 packages.
- Type
- Partnership
- Category
- Application Security
- Source
- blog.packagist.com ↗
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