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Emacs 31.1 Ships With Unexec Dumper Removed, Terminal Mouse Support On by Default, and a New User Lisp Directory
GNU Emacs 31.1 arrives with the legacy unexec dumper removed, xterm-mouse-mode on by default in compatible terminals, a new user-lisp directory feature, and expanded tree-sitter options.
Redis 8.10 Ships Compact Hashes, a Bulk-Insert HIMPORT Command, and Native BACKUP
Redis 8.10 reaches general availability with a memory-saving compact hash encoding, a bulk-insert HIMPORT command, and a node-side BACKUP command built on multi-part AOF.
Google Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash With Sharp Coding Benchmark Gains, Same-Day GitHub Copilot Rollout
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash posts sharp coding and web-dev benchmark gains at half its predecessor's launch price, and lands in GitHub Copilot immediately.
Xen Project Forms Safety Committee, Enlisting AMD, EPAM, and Renesas to Pursue Formal Certification for Its Open Source Hypervisor
The Linux Foundation-hosted Xen Project launched a Safety Committee with AMD, EPAM, and Renesas as founding contributors, aiming to bring formal functional-safety certification to the open source hypervisor for automotive, avionics, and robotics use.
Salesforce Launches Slack Code, Bringing AI Coding Agents Into Team Chat Channels
Slack's new Slack Code feature moves AI coding agents out of private terminals into shared, self-archiving team channels, launching with Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and Vercel.
pg_clickhouse v0.10 Pushes Correlated Subqueries to ClickHouse, Cutting a TPC-H Query From 32.7 Seconds to 37 Milliseconds
ClickHouse's pg_clickhouse extension now pushes whole correlated subqueries down to ClickHouse, taking TPC-H pushdown coverage from 12 to 16 of 22 queries.
Rust 1.98.0 Ships Algebraic Floating-Point Methods and a Standard-Library Alternative to the itoa Crate
Rust 1.98.0 stabilizes non-deterministic algebraic float operations for faster loop vectorization and a format_into method that matches the itoa crate's performance.
RPM 6.1.0 Ships With PKCS11 Package Signing and a New Kernel-Style Release Cadence
RPM 6.1.0 adds PKCS11 hardware-token signing and macro modifiers, the first release under a new versioning scheme modeled on the Linux kernel.
Grafana 13.2 Ships Saved Queries, GitHub Enterprise Git Sync, and a New View Panel Sidebar
Grafana 13.2 brings a generally available shared query library, Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise and webhook-based GitLab/BitBucket sync, and a public-preview view panel sidebar for viewers.
Bun 1.4 Ships as First Stable Release Built on Its Rust Rewrite, Cutting Package Installs 30x and Idle CPU 5x
Bun 1.4, released August 20, is the first stable version built entirely on the runtime's contested Rust rewrite, delivering 30x faster package installs and 5x lower idle CPU usage.
DuckDB Previews v2.0 "Cyanoptera," Replacing Its Postgres-Derived Parser With a PEG Grammar Ahead of a Fall Release
DuckDB's team previewed version 2.0, codenamed Cyanoptera, replacing its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with an extensible PEG-based parser and adding client/server mode and triggers.
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 Rolls Out in GitHub Copilot, Targeting Agentic and Terminal-Based Coding
Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, days after SpaceXAI positioned it near GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.