CUE package management and modules

[myitcv]

This issue is an umbrella issue tracking package management and modules in CUE. Proposals, documents etc will be linked from this issue.

We have not reused #851 as the umbrella issue for package management and modules. That issue captures an early proposal that will very likely be superseded by a v2 proposal. Repurposing that issue would lose history in what is already a long proposal and discussion.

[rogpeppe]

If you'd like to provide use cases and/or feedback on potential module design, please post to the discussion at #2044.

[myitcv]

We have just published a revised package management and modules proposal that entirely replaces #851

Please see #2330 for a link to that proposal. Feedback and questions very much welcome!

[myitcv]

As announced on the 2026-06-20 community call, the revised module proposal in #2330 has been updated with a number of sub proposals that go into more detail in areas like storage, (supply chain) security etc. Please see #2330 for more details.

[myitcv]

As announced on the 2026-06-20 community call, we are starting fortnightly CUE Modules Feedback Sessions / office hours. For more details please see #2461

[myitcv]

The second CUE modules feedback session / office hours is happening in a little under an hour (apologies for the late notice). For more details, please see #2487

[myitcv]

Apologies - we failed to update here with recent announcements:

• 2023-09-14 CUE Modules Feedback Session / office hours
• 2023-08-03 CUE Modules Feedback Session / office hours

[myitcv]

Apologies to folks following here: we never really got going with providing updates on this issue, instead switching our focus to https://cuelang.org/issue/2939 and the regular modules update calls.

v3 of the modules proposal has just been accepted in #2939. The implementation of the modules proposal (previously enabled via CUE_EXPERIMENT=modules) will be on by default in v0.9.0. https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/releases/tag/v0.9.0-alpha.5 flips the default for some final testing before the v0.9.0 release.

It seems like an appropriate time to close this issue therefore. From this point onwards, the modules roadmap will provide the best overview of our work on modules.