standards

C++26 was disapproved in its ISO Draft International Standard ballot, with contracts cited as the likely reason; WG21 meets in Búzios from 16 November as papers disagree on keeping or removing the feature.

Ecma International approved ECMAScript 2026 on June 30. The 17th edition of the JavaScript standard adds Math.sumPrecise, Iterator.concat, Array.fromAsync, Error.isError, Map upsert methods, Uint8Array base64 and hex conversion, and JSON.parse source access.

The 2026-07-28 MCP release candidate makes the protocol core stateless, formalizes an Extensions framework, and deprecates Roots, Sampling, and Logging. The RC locked May 21 for a July 28 final.

The 3GPP standards body must decide by June 2026 how long Release 21 work will take, a decision that will set the pace for the first commercial 6G networks expected around 2030.

The Linux Foundation established AAIF on December 9, 2025, placing MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md under neutral open-source governance with eight platinum members including AWS, Google, and Microsoft.