generated: '2026-09-05' method: searched source: >- proxy.golang.org module metadata, api.github.com releases, hub.docker.com v2 API, raw.githubusercontent.com/buildpacks/homebrew-tap Formula/pack.rb, and the pack install documentation at https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/pack/ provider: Cloud Native Buildpacks providerId: buildpacks description: >- First-party distribution surface for Cloud Native Buildpacks. CNB is a specification project, so its "SDKs" are Go modules that implement the Buildpack and Platform APIs (libcnb, lifecycle, imgutil), plus the reference pack CLI which is distributed as a Go module, a Homebrew formula, a Docker image and OS packages. Every version/published pair below was read from the registry's own metadata endpoint on 2026-09-05. note: >- Third-party language bindings exist and are widely used (notably Heroku's Rust libcnb.rs, crates.io/crates/libcnb) but are NOT maintained by the Cloud Native Buildpacks project and are deliberately excluded from this first-party inventory. packages: - name: github.com/buildpacks/pack language: Go registry: pkg.go.dev registry_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/buildpacks/pack repository: https://github.com/buildpacks/pack official: true version: v0.40.9 published: '2026-08-09' version_source: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/buildpacks/pack/@latest description: Reference CLI implementation of the CNB Platform API. Also importable as a Go library. - name: pack language: Go registry: homebrew registry_url: https://github.com/buildpacks/homebrew-tap/blob/main/Formula/pack.rb repository: https://github.com/buildpacks/pack official: true version: 0.40.9 published: '2026-08-09' version_source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildpacks/homebrew-tap/main/Formula/pack.rb install: brew install buildpacks/tap/pack description: >- Homebrew formula for the pack CLI, autogenerated from the pack release workflow. Homebrew taps expose no metadata endpoint; the version was read from the formula's own `version` stanza. - name: buildpacksio/pack language: n/a registry: dockerhub registry_url: https://hub.docker.com/r/buildpacksio/pack repository: https://github.com/buildpacks/pack official: true version: 0.40.9 published: '2026-08-09' version_source: https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/buildpacksio/pack/tags description: Container distribution of the pack CLI (tags 0.40.9, 0.40.9-base, latest, base). - name: github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle language: Go registry: pkg.go.dev registry_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle repository: https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle official: true version: v0.21.18 published: '2026-08-21' version_source: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle/@latest description: Reference implementation of the Buildpack and Platform APIs (detect/analyze/restore/build/export/rebase). - name: github.com/buildpacks/libcnb/v2 language: Go registry: pkg.go.dev registry_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/buildpacks/libcnb/v2 repository: https://github.com/buildpacks/libcnb official: true version: v2.1.0 published: '2025-09-24' version_source: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/buildpacks/libcnb/v2/@latest description: >- Non-opinionated Go language binding for the Buildpack and Extension specifications. This is the closest thing CNB publishes to a buildpack-author SDK. Last release predates the Buildpack API 0.12 release (2025-12-11), which is a currency signal worth watching. - name: github.com/buildpacks/libcnb language: Go registry: pkg.go.dev registry_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/buildpacks/libcnb repository: https://github.com/buildpacks/libcnb official: true version: v1.30.4 published: '2024-10-07' version_source: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/buildpacks/libcnb/@latest deprecated: true description: v1 major line of libcnb, superseded by the /v2 module path. - name: github.com/buildpacks/imgutil language: Go registry: pkg.go.dev registry_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/buildpacks/imgutil repository: https://github.com/buildpacks/imgutil official: true version: v0.0.0-20260824214648-e09626c50080 published: '2026-08-24' version_source: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/buildpacks/imgutil/@latest description: >- OCI image manipulation helpers used by pack and lifecycle. The repository publishes no tagged GitHub release; the Go module proxy serves only a pseudo-version, so consumers pin a commit. - name: github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack language: Go registry: pkg.go.dev registry_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack repository: https://github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack official: true org: buildpacks-community version: v0.18.0 published: '2026-07-02' version_source: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack/@latest description: >- Kubernetes-native CNB build service. Ships the generated client for the kpack.io/v1alpha1 CRD API described by openapi/buildpacks-kpack-swagger.json. - name: github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack-cli language: Go registry: pkg.go.dev registry_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack-cli repository: https://github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack-cli official: true org: buildpacks-community version: v0.17.2 published: '2026-06-08' version_source: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack-cli/@latest description: >- `kp` command-line client for kpack. Publishes no GitHub "latest release"; the version was read from the Go module proxy. os_packages: - manager: apt target: Ubuntu install: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cncf-buildpacks/pack-cli && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pack-cli - manager: dnf target: Fedora install: sudo dnf install pack - manager: pacman target: Arch Linux install: pacman -S pack-cli - manager: zypper target: openSUSE install: sudo zypper refresh && sudo zypper install buildpacks-cli - manager: chocolatey target: Windows install: choco install pack --version=0.40.9 - manager: scoop target: Windows install: scoop install pack - manager: mise target: cross-platform install: mise use -g pack@latest docs: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/pack/