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Cyber Resilience Act pushes projects to add security contacts

Original: The two required fields, the useful optional ones, the common mistakes, and why the Cyber Resilience Act makes a working

A guide circulating among developers explains how to write a working security contact file for software projects, covering the two required fields, useful optional ones, and common mistakes. Discussion links the issue to the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which makes a reachable security contact effectively urgent for open source and web projects facing compliance obligations.

Why now: The EU Cyber Resilience Act's compliance deadlines are pushing developers and open source maintainers to sort out security contact details now.

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