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24 Aug 2026 edition
JavaScript GitHub React Web

vercel/next.js: v16.4.0-canary.6

Misc Changes turbo-tasks: execute scheduled tasks inline when they are read: #96808 Revert "Record fallback cache lifetime for blocking PPR routes (#97821)": #97835 Sweep stale Turbopack output from distDir on dev…

Source: Next.js Releases next-js-bot[bot]
JavaScript GitHub React Web

vercel/next.js: v16.4.0-canary.5

Misc Changes Record fallback cache lifetime for blocking PPR routes: #97821 Document catchError for the Pages Router: #97748 clippy: allow needless late init where it makes sense: #96410 Turbopack: emit/collect: #96631…

Source: Next.js Releases next-js-bot[bot]
Web

Intent to Ship: JPEG XL

It isn’t often that new image formats land in browsers. In the early 2000s we had JPEG, GIF, and PNG. The 2010s gave us WebP, which was a modest step up from JPEG. But the 2020s have given us two new image formats that…

Source: Mozilla Hacks Jake Archibald
JavaScript GitHub Web

axios/axios: v1.20.0

v1.20.0 — August 19, 2026 This release hardens runtime option handling, adds RFC 9110 status-code aliases, fixes Node.js and XHR reliability issues, and refreshes project tooling and documentation. ⚠️ Breaking Changes &…

Source: Axios Releases jasonsaayman
JavaScript GitHub Web

electron/electron: electron v42.10.0

Release Notes for v42.10.0 Features Fixed contentTracing module to capture Node.js trace categories. #52973 Fixes Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client…

Source: Electron Releases sudowoodo-release-bot[bot]
JavaScript GitHub Web

vitejs/vite: create-vite@9.2.0

Features create-vite: add nub package manager support (#23019) (c31c499) Bug Fixes create-vite: update moved eslint-react plugin links in generated README (#23284) (1cbf7d6) deps: update all non-major dependencies…

Source: Vite Releases github-actions[bot]
Open Source

[$] How to be safe from quantum computing

Practical quantum computers have been ten years away for the last several decades. Now, however, it's beginning to look as though they will be possible in just a few years. Recent research with obfuscated results…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Web

WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration

Seven and half years after blocks arrived in Core, WordPress introduces a way to build blocks without React annd build pipelines. All you need is PHP. WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration originally handwritten and…

Source: CSS-Tricks Fränk Klein
Open Source

Emacs 31.1 released

Version 31.1 of the Emacs editor has been released. There is a long list of changes including the removal of the Emacs dumper, a new user Lisp directory feature, a "Send to..." menu item in context-menu-mode, and many…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ansible-core, cups-filters, curl, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, kbd, kernel, perl-Date-Manip, php:8.2, and php:8.3), Debian…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source General

How GitHub's tiny wins team fixes developer paper cuts

Building software on GitHub means navigating tiny details every single day. In this clip from the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy Williams highlights the GitHub Tiny Wins team, a group dedicated to fixing small platform…

Source: GitHub GitHub