# Introducing the Backstage Community Plugins Repository

DevFeed: [Introducing the Backstage Community Plugins Repository](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-the-backstage-community-plugins-repository-12103.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://backstage.io/blog/2024/04/19/community-plugins>)

Author: Ben Lambert, Spotify

Published: 2024-04-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/backstage-software-catalog-and-developer-platform-blog.md>)

Topics: [Backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backstage.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backstage.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-portal.md>), [idp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/idp.md>), [internal-developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-platform.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packages.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plugin.md>), [plugins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plugins.md>), [software-catalog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-catalog.md>), [software-templates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-templates.md>), [techdocs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/techdocs.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

Backstage introduces a community plugins repository and reports that most plugins from the main repository have been migrated there. The new home is intended to support independent releases and a separate release cadence, with tooling to help users update package references and dependencies.

## Source excerpt

tl;dr: We've set up the new community plugins repository, and have migrated most of the packages in the plugins directory of the main Backstage repository to their new home!