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.NET 8 and .NET 9 Reach End of Support on November 10 as .NET 11 Ships; Microsoft's Table Lists November 14, 2028 for Both .NET 10 and .NET 11
Microsoft's materials give November 10, 2026 as the end-of-support date for .NET 8 (LTS) and .NET 9 (STS), the day .NET 11 shipped; its releases table lists November 14, 2028 for both .NET 10 (LTS) and .NET 11 (STS).
Node.js 26.13.0 'Lithium' Moves Node.js 26.x Into LTS Through April 2029, While the Node.js 27.0.0-alpha.0 Pre-Release Lists V8 15.6 and OpenSSL 3 as a Minimum
Node.js 26.13.0 marks 26.x as LTS with updates through the end of April 2029 and no other changes from 26.12.1; the 27.0.0-alpha.0 pre-release lists V8 15.6.75.13 and breaking changes.
Node.js 26.11.0 Renames Its SQLite Classes and Adds a --process-timeout Watchdog Flag, While a Same-Day 26.11.1 Reverts the Docs Redesign
Node.js 26.11.0 renames DatabaseSync and StatementSync to Database and Statement with aliases kept, adds --process-timeout, and 26.11.1 reverts three commits.
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.
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.
Node.js 26.9 Ships a Standards-Compliant Global Web Worker, Enables Experimental FFI Module by Default
Node.js 26.9.0 adds a global Worker class implementing the WHATWG Web Worker API and enables the experimental node:ffi module by default.
TinyGo 0.42 Adds Recoverable Runtime Panics and a UEFI Target, Then Ships a Seeed Studio Starter Kit
TinyGo 0.42 makes previously fatal runtime panics recoverable via defer and recover, adds a minimal UEFI compile target, and the project followed with its first official hardware starter kit built with Seeed Studio.
TornadoVM 6.0 Eliminates JNI and JVMCI, Unifying Java GPU Acceleration Across JDK 21 to 27
TornadoVM 6.0 removes its JNI and JVMCI dependencies, unifying Java GPU acceleration into one build spanning JDK 21 through 27 while retiring three hardware backends.
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.
Deno 2.9 Ships 'deno desktop' to Build Native Apps From Web Frameworks Without Electron
Deno 2.9, released June 25, adds an experimental deno desktop command that compiles web projects into single-binary native apps using the OS webview by default.
Deno 2.8 Ships Six New Subcommands, 3.66x Faster npm Installs, and Chrome DevTools Network Inspection
Deno 2.8, released May 22, adds deno audit fix, deno pack, deno ci, deno transpile, deno why, and deno bump-version, while slashing cold npm install times by 3.66x and enabling Chrome DevTools network traffic inspection.
Bun 1.1.13 Ships Memory Fixes and Jest-Style Test Sharding as Pulumi Adopts It as a First-Class Runtime
Anthropic's first major Bun release since acquiring the runtime tackles long-running-process leaks, adds isolate, parallel and shard test flags, and lands days after Pulumi made Bun a fully supported infrastructure-as-code runtime.