26 products Sparkpulse tracks are shipping around backports. The highest-velocity backports products right now are dbt Core, Antrea and Icinga (ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity score). The theme runs across 9 sectors, so the momentum you see here is drawn from products competing in different corners of the market. Their velocity scores span 0.0 to 7.5 out of 10, a spread that shows how unevenly shipping cadence is distributed across the field. Below: every tracked product carrying this theme, updated from release data. Everything on this page is regenerated from verified release data, so the ranking reflects the latest changelogs rather than a static list.
#01dbt Coredbt-core spent a day backporting one deprecation warning across eight EOL branches — the message is: upgrade.7.5alternatives →#02AntreaAntrea turned on gossip encryption by default and made users read the upgrade guide first.6.3alternatives →#03IcingaIcinga 2 is fixing the same API permission holes across every supported branch.5.0alternatives →#04Fluent BitFluent Bit keeps two lines alive while the 5.x branch quietly opens 5.1.5.0alternatives →#05QuayQuay ships nothing but CVE remediation, mirrored across two supported branches5.0alternatives →#06ZeebeCamunda's 8.10 alpha threads business IDs through the stack while the tag feed fills with CI noise.5.0alternatives →#07k0sk0s keeps four Kubernetes branches patched in lockstep, one backport at a time.5.0alternatives →#08AnsibleFour maintenance branches move in lockstep, with the actual changes hidden behind a link.5.0alternatives →#09Open edXOpen edX maintenance branches carrying security backports, not features5.0alternatives →#10containerdcontainerd is walking checkpoint/restore back across every branch it still supports.5.0alternatives →#11Erlang/OTPThree OTP branches move as one release train, and SSH and epmd carry the security load.5.0alternatives →#12n8nFour release trains running at once, and the top of the feed is all patch traffic.5.0alternatives →#13AerospikeAerospike shipped a coordinated CVE train across four release branches in one afternoon5.0alternatives →#14Nextcloud TalkThe 25.0 alpha turns Talk toward classified channels and retention control — the stable lines only get call fixes.5.0alternatives →#15JoomlaTwo security releases ship the same day, and 6.2 finally clears alpha5.0alternatives →#16Nextcloud DesktopThree parallel branches, one job: stop the macOS sync client from losing files.5.0alternatives →#17FormbricksThe 5.3 line reached stable and immediately dropped into single-fix patch-RC mode.5.0alternatives →#18ERPNextTwo ERPNext lines ship minutes apart: v16 takes the features, v15 takes the same fixes5.0alternatives →#19RStudioRStudio's release feed is single-commit build stamps, and the AI assistant work shows only in the fixes.2.5alternatives →#20DuckDBSix releases, all patches — this window shows DuckDB's maintenance machine, not its roadmap2.5alternatives →#21TAO TestingOne feature, four branch tags — TAO's feed is backport plumbing, not release news.2.5alternatives →#22CitusCitus is in maintenance mode across four branches, with the feature work invisible from the feed.2.5alternatives →#23FiberFiber v3 has sat in release candidate for months while v2 gets one-line patches2.5alternatives →#24FirebirdFirebird maintains three release branches at once and ships the same fixes to all of them0.0alternatives →#25oVirtA virtualization manager coasting on backports, with releases years apart0.0alternatives →#26Apache IcebergIceberg's release cadence is now backports and CVE patches across three live minor lines.0.0alternatives →
Frequently asked questions about backports
Which SaaS tools ship backports in 2026?
dbt Core, Antrea, Icinga, Fluent Bit, Quay, and 21 more — the backports products Sparkpulse tracks, ranked by shipping velocity from verified changelogs.
Which backports product has the highest shipping velocity?
dbt Core, with the top velocity score (7.5/10) — Sparkpulse's velocity score is derived from verified release data.
How many products are shipping around backports?
Sparkpulse currently tracks 26 products carrying the backports theme, updated continuously from verified release data.