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nmfspalette vs runc
A side-by-side editorial comparison of nmfspalette and runc — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
nmfspalette vs runc: at a glance
What is nmfspalette?
A NOAA Fisheries colour palette that ships when the branding guide changes
nmfspalette supplies the NOAA Fisheries colour palette as an R package, for figures that have to follow agency branding. Its five releases track the branding guide rather than any software need: a first version in 2020, a breaking switch to CSS-compatible colour names in 2021, an update to the 2022 branding colours applied in July 2023, and a 2024 release whose stated purpose is to mint a DOI. There is no functionality here beyond supplying colours.
What is runc?
runc now publishes an end-of-life calendar, and three branches shipped the same CVE fix in two days.
1.5.0 in June was the first stable release of the 1.5.z series and the third under runc's formal release and support policy: 1.2.z and earlier are unsupported, 1.3.z receives only high-severity CVE fixes until the end of October 2026, and 1.4.z is limited to security and significant bugfixes. A month later 1.5.1 fixed a real-world regression — the maskPaths optimisation from 1.5.0-rc.3 broke tmpfs mounts with nr_inodes=1 on Ubuntu 20.04 kernels. In mid-June, CVE-2026-41579 was fixed simultaneously across 1.3.6, 1.4.3 and 1.5.0-rc.3 and released with no embargo.
nmfspalette vs runc: editorial side-by-side
nmfspalette
0.0INFRA · APIS
A NOAA Fisheries colour palette that ships when the branding guide changes
◆ Current state
nmfspalette supplies the NOAA Fisheries colour palette as an R package, for figures that have to follow agency branding. Its five releases track the branding guide rather than any software need: a first version in 2020, a breaking switch to CSS-compatible colour names in 2021, an update to the 2022 branding colours applied in July 2023, and a 2024 release whose stated purpose is to mint a DOI. There is no functionality here beyond supplying colours.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a package whose release schedule is set outside the project — it changes when NOAA publishes new branding, and the 2022 guide took until 2023 to land here. The one release with real user impact was the 2021 breaking change, which replaced the branding guide's colour names with CSS-compatible ones and would have broken any code naming a colour directly. The DOI release indicates the maintainer expects it to be cited in publications, which is the natural end state for an agency-standard palette.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next release when NOAA Fisheries revises its branding guide again; on the 2022-to-2023 precedent, it will follow the guide by several months.
runc
2.5INFRA · APIS
runc now publishes an end-of-life calendar, and three branches shipped the same CVE fix in two days.
◆ Current state
1.5.0 in June was the first stable release of the 1.5.z series and the third under runc's formal release and support policy: 1.2.z and earlier are unsupported, 1.3.z receives only high-severity CVE fixes until the end of October 2026, and 1.4.z is limited to security and significant bugfixes. A month later 1.5.1 fixed a real-world regression — the maskPaths optimisation from 1.5.0-rc.3 broke tmpfs mounts with nr_inodes=1 on Ubuntu 20.04 kernels. In mid-June, CVE-2026-41579 was fixed simultaneously across 1.3.6, 1.4.3 and 1.5.0-rc.3 and released with no embargo.
◆ Where it's heading
The project is behaving like infrastructure with a contract. Publishing dated support windows and shipping a coordinated fix across every live branch on the same day is the operating posture of a component that sits under every container on a host, where operators need to know what they are still entitled to. The CVE itself is instructive: a /dev symlink escape in the same family as three earlier CVEs, found by re-auditing the rootfs preparation code that had been hardened before.
◆ Prediction
1.5.0's notes state that a 1.6.0 is expected in late October 2026, which is also when 1.3.z support ends — so the next milestone is that pairing. Expect 1.5.z patches until then.
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Recent activity from nmfspalette and runc
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agorunctmpfs regression on Ubuntu 20.04 kernels fixed
- 2mo agoruncrunc 1.5.0 stable, with dated support windows for older branches
- 2mo agoruncCVE-2026-41579: /dev symlink host write access fixed
- 2mo agoruncRelease candidate carrying the CVE-2026-41579 fix
- 2mo agoruncCVE-2026-41579 fix backported to the 1.4 branch
- 4mo agoruncBuild fixes and seccomp WaitKillableRecv support
- 2y agonmfspaletteMinor updates and DOI
- 2y agonmfspaletteUpdate to new 2022 colors
- 5y agonmfspaletteRelease with CSS compatible names
- 5y agonmfspaletteRelease update to work with r-cmd-check
- 5y agonmfspaletteThe first release of nmfspalette
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between nmfspalette and runc?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. runc is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is nmfspalette better than runc?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. runc is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to nmfspalette?
Top nmfspalette alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "nmfspalette alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/nmfspalette for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to runc?
Top runc alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "runc alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/runc for the full list with editorial commentary on each.