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VS Code 1.140 Adds Multi-Folder Agent Sessions, Remote Delegation Tools and Symlinked Dependencies for Git Worktrees
Visual Studio Code 1.140, released September 30, adds a Copilot harness on an agent host process, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation tools, HydraFusion model orchestration and a worktree symlink setting.
Firefox 157 Ships Nova Redesign, Compact Mode and Hardware AV1 Decoding for WebRTC Calls
Mozilla's Firefox 157 brings the Nova visual refresh, a returning compact mode, hardware AV1 decoding in WebRTC, and new CSS support for at-rule() and overscroll-behavior: chain.
Azure Gateway Outage Hit 18 Regions as a Gateway Manager Change Collided With OS Servicing, Microsoft Says
Microsoft says a gateway management service change, combined with unrelated OS servicing, disrupted Azure ExpressRoute and VPN gateways from September 30 to October 1; a post incident review is pending.
Rust 1.99 Stabilizes C-Variadic Function Definitions and Raw-Pointer Layout Queries, and Disables Cargo Incremental Builds in CI
Rust 1.99.0, released October 1, lets developers define C-ABI variadic functions in Rust, stabilizes raw-pointer size and alignment functions, and changes Cargo defaults.
Python Ships Tarfile, SSL and Zipfile Security Fixes Across Five Branches and Retires 3.10 With Its Final Release
Python 3.14.8, 3.13.16, 3.12.15, 3.11.17 and 3.10.22 fix CVEs in tarfile, ssl, zipfile and urllib; 3.10 reaches end of life with its final release.
GitHub Retires macOS 14 Actions Runner Image on November 2, With Eight Job-Failing Brownouts Starting October 5
GitHub will retire the macOS 14 runner image on November 2, 2026 and fail jobs using it in eight October brownout windows; Azure DevOps hosted agents follow the same schedule.
Siemens Ends OpenRadioss, Removing Public Repositories for the AGPL Crash-Simulation Solver
Siemens is retiring the OpenRadioss project it inherited from Altair; its GitHub organization shows no public repositories, and source access moves to an approved-partner program.
SvelteKit 3.0 Ships With Config Moved to vite.config.ts, a #lib Import Alias, and Vite 8 and TypeScript 6 as Minimums
SvelteKit 3.0 was released October 1, moving configuration into vite.config.ts, replacing $lib with #lib, and requiring Vite 8, TypeScript 6 and Node 22.17.
Cloudflare Releases Vinext 1.0, Its Vite-Based Framework for Running Next.js Apps on Any Platform
Seven months after launching as an AI-driven experiment, Cloudflare's Vinext reaches 1.0 with App Router and Pages Router support and a cache-warming deploy step.
Samba 4.25 Ships Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles, Cluster Functional Levels and a Ceph Object Gateway Module
The first stable Samba 4.25 release adds experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles, a cluster functional level for safer rolling upgrades, and Ceph Object Gateway shares.
Qt 6.12 LTS Ships With Built-In QML Hot Reload and a Production-Ready CanvasPainter API
Qt 6.12, released September 30 as a five-year Long-Term Support version, adds native QML hot reload, a production-ready CanvasPainter API and HarmonyOS as an LTS platform.
SurrealDB 3.3 Lets Any Postgres Client Connect and Streams Query Results, but Does Not Speak ANSI SQL
SurrealDB 3.3 adds a Postgres wire-protocol listener, row-by-row result streaming and 15 security fixes, though the docs say it speaks SurrealQL, not ANSI SQL.