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Cloudflare Launches Worker Previews, Giving Every Git Branch Its Own Isolated Workers Environment
Cloudflare's Worker Previews, created with npx wrangler preview, give each Git branch an isolated environment with its own URL, configuration, state and observability.
Microsoft Makes WSL Containers Generally Available, Shipping the wslc.exe CLI and a Windows API in WSL 3.0.1
Microsoft's open-source WSL containers feature reached general availability on September 29 with WSL 3.0.1, adding a Docker-style wslc.exe CLI, a Windows API, and enterprise controls.
Cloudflare Open-Sources Forge, an Apache 2.0 SDK and CLI Generator, as Anthropic Winds Down Stainless's Hosted Product
Cloudflare released Forge, an Apache 2.0 pipeline that turns OpenAPI specs into SDKs, CLIs and docs, after Anthropic said it would wind down Stainless's hosted SDK generator.
DuckDB 1.5.6 Ships Correctness and Crash Fixes, and Previews a Windows Build of v2.0 That Ran TPC-H More Than 6x Faster
DuckDB's sixth 1.5 patch release fixes wrong-result and crash bugs; the team also reports a v2.0.0-dev Windows build finishing a TPC-H SF300 run in 129 seconds versus 822.
Firefox 156 Ships Scheduler.yield Priority Inheritance, text-box-trim Fixes and a 45% Faster PDF Viewer Startup
Mozilla released Firefox 156 on September 15, 2026, with scheduler and Promise.try fixes, TLS group removals, a roughly 45% faster PDF viewer startup and new enterprise policies.
Uber Details ServiceScale, a Second Kubernetes Scaling Controller Built to Let Failover Reuse Idle Capacity
Uber describes a new ServiceScale controller that lets multiple orchestrators set replica counts on the same Kubernetes workloads, and the stale-cache and multi-writer bugs its year-long rollout exposed.
postmarketOS Rebrands as Nura After an 18-Month Naming Process, Citing Trademark and Pronunciation Problems
The mobile Linux OS postmarketOS is now Nura, moving to nura.eco and filing a trademark after a naming process of roughly a year and a half.
ClickHouse 26.9 Adds Incremental Refreshable Materialized Views, Time-Limited CREATE TOKEN Credentials and Boundary-Based LIMIT
ClickHouse 26.9 ships 56 new features, adding APPEND INCREMENTAL refreshable views for Iceberg, CREATE TOKEN credentials, LIMIT AFTER/UNTIL, and DISTINCT disk spilling.
Chrome 154 Ships Content-Sized Iframes, Accessible Scroll-Marker Modes and text-decoration-inset
Chrome 154 reached stable on September 22 with a frame-sizing property for iframes that size to their content, links and tabs modes for scroll markers, and text-decoration-inset.
Git 2.56 Adds Safer Conflict Staging and Bulk Branch Cleanup, and Speeds Up Merge-Base Lookups on Large Repositories
Git 2.56.0 adds git add --resolved and git branch --delete-merged, plus a merge-base change that cut a Linux kernel lookup from 0.29 to 0.01 seconds.
Cursor Launches Rollouts and Security Reviewer Bots, Built on Its Firetiger Acquisition
Cursor released two automated bots that watch code from pull request to production and scan every PR for security flaws, six weeks after acquiring startup Firetiger.
Node.js Closes Its Contested AI-Assisted Mega-PR After the Code Lands in Core, Then Codifies an AI Use Policy
Node.js closed the 19,000-line VFS pull request that split the project over AI-generated code, after its functionality shipped through smaller PRs and the TSC adopted a formal AI use policy.