Software Development

Rust's next-generation borrow checker, Polonius Alpha, is now live on nightly for testing, with the project aiming to stabilize it before 2026 ends.

QuestDB 10.0 introduces QWP, a binary columnar protocol that replaces separate ILP and PostgreSQL wire connections, cutting ingestion overhead and streaming query results into Apache Arrow at over 200 million rows a second.

Docker's self-built container hypervisor replaces libkrun on Mac and Hyper-V/WSL2 on Windows, with general availability targeted for the end of October.

The Python Software Foundation announced 17 candidates for the first Python Packaging Council election on August 13, with voting scheduled for September 1-15.

Expedia's mockql-rs uses an LLM to fill in GraphQL schema fields marked with @mock, joining Airbnb's build-time directive and an early-stage GraphQL Foundation RFC.

Debian Developers began voting on eight rival LLM-usage proposals August 15, after a corrected ballot replaced the project secretary's first call for votes.

X published a far larger open-source release of its recommendation code on GitHub, plus a tool letting active users check visibility labels on their account.

Google will remove every remaining Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, 2026, completing a phase-out that has already disabled uBlock Origin and other legacy ad blockers in Chrome.

HEIR compiles pre-trained AI models to run inference on fully homomorphic encrypted data, letting servers process private data without decrypting it.

Modular released Mojo 1.0 on August 11, promising API stability and pledging to open-source the compiler in 2026, two months after Qualcomm agreed to buy the company.

Podman 6.1 ships volume renaming, a machine restart command, Quadlet ImageVolume support, and IPv6 rootless port forwarding.

Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl has open-sourced celld, letting developers run Cloudflare's Durable Objects and Workers APIs on their own S3-backed infrastructure.