Intel continues to archive open projects on GitHub

Intel is formally closing and archiving open projects that no longer align with the company's current priorities. The latest wave of such archiving was noted at the end of May: according to Phoronix, on May 23, projects related to OBS Studio, CVE scanning, video transcoding, SGX, and research efforts by Intel Labs were included on the list.

The new wave of archiving includes:

• Thunderbolt Share OBS Studio Plugin — a plugin for OBS Studio that allowed capturing image and sound from one computer and transmitting them to another via Intel Thunderbolt Share. The repository already contains Intel's standard warning: the project has been archived, and the company does not guarantee development, support, fixes, new releases, and will no longer accept patches.

• CVE Binary Tool Action — a GitHub Action for checking repositories for known vulnerabilities using the CVE Binary Tool. It was capable of scanning binary files, component lists, and SBOM, as well as publishing results in Security Tab and HTML/JSON/PDF reports. Intel has also archived this repository and stopped accepting changes.

• SMTA — Streaming Media Transcoding Application, a demonstration application showcasing the video transcoding capabilities on Intel integrated graphics.

• Intel Trusted Ledger Config Store — a project under an MIT license related to storing data for the Intel SGX enclave identity collateral. The repository was archived on May 18, 2026; Intel separately stated that further support, fixes, and new releases are not guaranteed.

• SCAP — a research project from Intel Labs on Statistical Calibrated Activation Pruning, which is one of the techniques for pruning activations in neural network models.

Phoronix also noted that Intel Self-Governed Remote Attestation was initially archived, but that decision was reversed the same day, so the project is expected to continue existing.

This is not the first such wave. On May 18, Phoronix reported on the closure of other Intel projects, including BigDL Time Series Toolkit, robotic LIDAR mapping, Terraform modules for Intel/IBM VM, Edge Software Provisioner, IPEX LLM Tutorial, RTOS IF Drivers, and Multi-Rail Power Sequencer. Some of these appeared niche or under-supported, but among them were projects demonstrating capabilities of Xeon, Intel GPU, edge scenarios, and infrastructure around AI.

Earlier, in April, Intel closed the repository Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism, where materials on open-source initiatives and the company's evangelists were available. At that time, projects such as Predictive Assets Maintenance, High Density Scalable Load Balancer, Double Batched FFT Library, and Intel Edge AI Performance Evaluation Toolkit were archived.

The context of this story is unpleasant for the community: Intel has been considered one of the major corporate participants in the Linux ecosystem and open-source software for decades, but over the past year, the company has already curtailed several notable areas, including Clear Linux. In March 2026 Phoronix separately reported, that the ClearLinux.org website was completely disabled, although archival materials for Clear Linux are still available on GitHub.

However, this does not mean Intel is completely withdrawing from open source. The company remains an important participant in the development of the Linux kernel, compilers, and low-level software directly related to its current hardware and server directions. But the overall direction looks considerably narrower: Intel is reducing peripheral, research, and demonstration projects, leaving resources where they are closer to the current business and product line.

For users and maintainers, this means a simple thing: if any Intel project has been moved to the archive, one can no longer expect official fixes and updates. Intel is directly suggesting that those who still need such projects create their own forks and maintain them independently.

Source: linux.org.ru