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05 Aug 2026 edition

Detect CDC failures faster with AWS DMS

AWS DMS uses exponential backoff for recoverable errors, and default settings can let a change data capture (CDC) task retry silently for up to 30 minutes before failing. This post shows how to tune four…

Source: AWS Database Blog Aritra Biswas
Django Python

Django 6.1 released

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.1. The release notes offer a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements. A few highlights are: Model field fetch modes for configuring…

Source: Django Weblog Jacob Walls
Python GitHub

astral-sh/uv: 0.12.2

Release Notes Released on 2026-08-05. Python Add CPython 3.15.0rc1 (#20948) Add CPython 3.14.7 (#20971) Enhancements Ensure diagnostic hints end with a newline to prevent malformed terminal output (#20959) Preview…

Source: uv Releases astral-automations-bot[bot]
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-java-v2: AWS SDK for Java v2 2.51.1

2.51.1 2026-08-05 AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority Features Private Certificate Authority service now supports RSASSA-PSS signing algorithm. AWS Glue Features Added the…

Source: AWS SDK Java v2 Releases aws-sdk-java-automation
AI GitHub

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.5.4

Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.5.3 release(anthropic): 1.5.4 (#39277) fix(anthropic): handle tool schemas with unsupported top-level composition (#39273) chore: bump the minor-and-patch group across 3 directories…

Source: LangChain Releases github-actions[bot]
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-js-v3: v3.1104.0

3.1104.0(2026-08-05) New Features client-deadline: AWS Deadline Cloud now reports persistent volume costs alongside compute and license costs. Customers can view per-fleet storage costs in Usage Explorer by selecting…

Source: AWS SDK JS v3 Releases aws-sdk-js-automation

Google Accelerator Alumni: Trakto

Learn more at g.co/accelerator/about Google Accelerators work with top growth-stage startups, developers, researchers, and nonprofits around the world, supporting leaders with bespoke technical builds leveraging Google…

Source: Google Cloud Tech Google Cloud
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-cli: 2.36.17

Tagging 2.36.17 release.

Source: AWS CLI Releases aws-cli-automation
AWS

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search

Today, AWS announces the general availability of vector search for Amazon DynamoDB, a new feature to index and search vectors in real time. As vector datasets grow into the billions or trillions, vector search at scale…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-java-v2: AWS SDK for Java v2 2.51.0

2.51.0 2026-08-04 AWS Identity and Access Management Features Updating endpoint generation logic AWS Organizations Features Improved accuracy of CloudTrail event documentation for AWS Organizations membership…

Source: AWS SDK Java v2 Releases aws-sdk-java-automation
JavaScript GitHub

nodejs/node: 2026-08-05, Version 26.7.0 (Current), @aduh95

Notable Changes [58717685a1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: support loading private keys through STORE loaders (Filip Skokan) #63949 [44b940ee8c] - crypto: update root certificates to NSS 3.125 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64746…

Source: Node.js Releases aduh95
FastAPI GitHub Python

encode/starlette: Version 1.4.1

What's Changed Default thread_minimum_size in GZipResponder by @Kludex in #3415 Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.4.1

Source: Starlette Releases Kludex
FastAPI GitHub Python

encode/starlette: Version 1.4.0

What's Changed Lazily allocate GZipMiddleware compression resources by @Kludex in #3407 Use zlib.compressobj instead of GzipFile in GZipMiddleware by @Kludex in #3411 Offload large GZip compression by @Kludex in #3410…

Source: Starlette Releases Kludex
Vue.js GitHub JavaScript

vuejs/core: v3.5.41

For stable releases, please refer to CHANGELOG.md for details. For pre-releases, please refer to CHANGELOG.md of the minor branch.

Source: Vue.js Releases github-actions[bot]
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-cli: 1.46.0

Tagging 1.46.0 release.

Source: AWS CLI Releases aws-sdk-python-automation
Rust

rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

Recently, five teams in the Rust project adopted a policy that I originally authored, governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to the rust-lang/rust monorepo. Notably, the new policy is not an…

Source: Inside Rust Blog Jynn Nelson
DevSec

AI Sends Global Crime Syndicates Into Fraud Nirvana

Organized crime is convincingly scamming at scale, making billions thanks to AI-enabled voice cloning, deepfake real-time video overlays, LLM-driven persona management, and automated translation.

Source: Dark Reading AppSec Tara Seals
PostgreSQL

Radim Marek: The DISTINCT in your COUNT

Here is a query that shows up in every analytics workload: SELECT count(DISTINCT user_id) FROM events; It looks like the cheapest possible thing: count the distinct users. On a machine with cores to spare you would…

Source: Planet PostgreSQL
DevSec

CSS: The Hidden Threat Lurking in Your Inbox

CSS was once just about design. Now researchers warn it's powerful enough to exfiltrate data from webmail — and some vendors aren't prepared.

Source: Dark Reading AppSec Kristina Beek
DevSec

Flaws in Google APK for Python Unlock Agent-to-Agent Attack

Google has fixed the issues, which exploited a trust boundary between two AI agents with different privilege levels to trigger automation that could compromise the supply chain.

Source: Dark Reading AppSec Elizabeth Montalbano
PostgreSQL

Christophe Pettus: Ontogeny Recapitulates the Relcache

Jacob Jackson at ByteofDev built something I can only describe as admirably irresponsible (and something I wish I had thought of first): claudegres, a “PostgreSQL” in which Claude is the entire backend. Not Claude…

Source: Planet PostgreSQL
Python

Validating Data With Pointblank in Python

Learn how to validate data in Python with Pointblank: declare quality checks, split clean from failing rows, and rerun validation plans from YAML.

Source: Real Python
General

The Agent Access Model

The Agent Access Model proposes a new architecture to secure task-scoped agents using strict identity brokering, continuous mediation, and stateful trust.

Source: Cloudflare Blog Matt Silverlock
General

How we’re rethinking work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS

We built Cloudflare OS to equip our teams to safely rethink how they get work done with AI. The platform brings together the best of our technologies, from our Compute primitives to our Zero Trust suite. This post walks…

Source: Cloudflare Blog Sam Rhea
General

Catching rogue AI behavior with identity-aware analytics

Identity-aware AI Gateway is now in open beta. User Insights turns that traffic into a behavioral baseline for every person and agent, and flags insider risk the moment it appears.

Source: Cloudflare Blog Ayush Kumar
General

WriteGuard: fine-grained controls for MCP Servers

At Cloudflare, we knew we could not depend on every employee to configure every agent perfectly or watch every tool call. Before expanding write access across our own internal MCP servers, we built WriteGuard. We are…

Source: Cloudflare Blog Kenny Johnson
General

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates

Source: Cloudflare Blog Dan Carter
Java

Presentation: Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers

Laurence Tratt discusses yk, an open-source meta-tracing JIT compiler framework. He shares how to automatically speed up C-based language interpreters like Lua and MicroPython with minimal, non-invasive code changes. He…

Source: InfoQ Java Laurence Tratt
Java

Jakarta Agentic AI Hits Its First Milestone

Jakarta Agentic AI just shipped its first deliverable: version 1.0.0-M1 is live on Maven Central and the draft 1.0 specification is out for review. The project now has a specific API surface that developers can look at,…

Source: Foojay Today Dominika Tasarz
DevSec

Angola's Largest Telco Breached Hours Before IPO

Unitel, Angola's dominant mobile operator, continues to recover from a cyberattack that caused outages the day of the government-owned telco's public offering.

Source: Dark Reading AppSec Robert Lemos
Rust

This Week in Rust 663

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want…

Source: This Week in Rust TWiR Contributors
PostgreSQL

What if Claude were your Postgres server?

#​660 — August 5, 2026 Web Version Lots of videos from this year's PGConf.dev are now on YouTube and I've rounded up some highlights at the end of the issue! __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Postgres Weekly COUNT(DISTINCT)…

Source: PostgreSQL Weekly
Web

The new CSS feature devs love most but can't rely on yet

🚀 Frontend Focus #​753 — August 5, 2026 | Read on the web ⚓️ Results from the 2026 State of CSS Survey — Developers report anchor positioning as their favorite new CSS feature of this past year, though limited support…

Source: Frontend Focus
Python

Core Dispatch #9

Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers July 18 through August 5, 2026. Python 3.15.0 release candidate 1 landed on August 4, followed by Python 3.14.7 and 3.13.15 on August 5. With the first release…

Source: Core Dispatch
Open Source General

How a GitHub lawyer uses Copilot CLI to verify AI outputs

When the cost of error is high, trust is everything. Dan, Director, Senior Corporate Counsel at GitHub, used GitHub Copilot CLI to build a custom skill called Eyeball that embeds inline screenshots of source documents…

Source: GitHub GitHub