ChakraCore Transition

Hello everyone,

In December of 2018, [we announced](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/) our intent to adopt the Chromium Open Source project in the development of Microsoft Edge. At that time, [we made no immediate changes](https://github.com/microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/5865) to the ChakraCore project. Now that the new Microsoft Edge is generally available, we believe the time has come to transition ongoing ownership of ChakraCore to the community.

In order to mitigate any disruption, we are committed to providing 12 months of security patches to the most-recent release of ChakraCore (v1.11). This will be true whether or not the community picks up ongoing development. Microsoft will not provide security patches past March 9, 2021. Our hope is that the community will continue supporting ChakraCore after this date.

Some of you may have already heard from us directly, as we have begun to explore community ownership. And, while we haven’t yet reached a quorum of partners to make this viable, we are open and supportive for it to happen.

If you want to participate, or if you have questions or concerns, we want to hear from you.

- Contact us via email at ChakraCoreTransition@microsoft.com
- Contact us on Twitter [@ChakraCore](https://twitter.com/ChakraCore)
- If you would like to have a one-on-one discussion, please reach out and we’ll set something up.

Lastly, we want to thank the ChakraCore and JavaScript communities for supporting us in our successes and in our failures. We’ve learned a lot and we’ve enjoyed working with you all.

All the best,
The Chakra Team