WordPress veterans launch FAIR project to tackle security and control concerns

The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today. Now, a coalition of prominent WordPress contributors and the Linux Foundation is unveiling a federated update and plugin-distribution network aimed at eliminating what they describe as a critical “supply chain security” vulnerability at the core of the world’s most widely used website system.

The FAIR Package Manager project...