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27 Aug 2026 edition
JavaScript GitHub Web

electron/electron: electron v44.0.0

Release Notes for v44.0.0 Stack Upgrades Chromium 152.0.7977.54 New in 152 New in 151 Node v24.18.1 Node 24.18.1 blog post Node 24.18.0 blog post V8 15.2 Breaking Changes Removed support for the Unity desktop…

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

webpack/webpack: v5.110.1

Patch Changes Fix a capture-group-less snapshot.managedPaths RegExp; speed up cache writes. (by @alexander-akait in #21843) Throw SyntaxError, or WebAssembly.CompileError, from an unparsable module. (by @alexander-akait…

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

OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building…

Source: GitHub Blog Gregg Cochran
JavaScript GitHub Web

webpack/webpack: v5.110.0

Minor Changes Wrap concatenated modules in lazy __webpack_require__.cw accessors and inline require(), keeping a wrapped body's names and side effects intact. (by @hai-x in #21519) Add performance hints reporting what a…

Source: webpack Releases github-actions[bot]
JavaScript GitHub React Web

vercel/next.js: v16.4.0-canary.9

Misc Changes fix: don't drop client references when the concatenated module id is 0: #97936 Replace resumed render bailout error with ReactDOM.browser behind a flag: #96844 Replace useSearchParams bailout error with…

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

angular/angular: 22.2.0-next.4

common Commit Description avoid prototype member collisions use locale NaN symbol in number formatting compiler Commit Description scope animations declared in minified nested rules compiler-cli Commit Description scope…

Source: Angular Releases leonsenft
JavaScript GitHub Web

angular/angular: 22.1.4

common Commit Description avoid prototype member collisions use locale NaN symbol in number formatting compiler Commit Description scope animations declared in minified nested rules compiler-cli Commit Description…

Source: Angular Releases leonsenft
Web

Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API

The general idea is that we create a Document Picture-in-Picture window (DPIP window), and then we put HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into it. Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API originally…

Source: CSS-Tricks Daniel Schwarz
Open Source

[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands

Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that is actually available does not change, though, so heavy…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

Eight stable kernels for Thursday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.1, 7.1.11, 6.18.47, 6.12.106, 6.6.154, 6.1.185, 5.15.218, and 5.10.267 stable kernels. Each of these has important updates throughout the tree; users are advised…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, attr, firefox, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-good, httpd, kernel, mingw-openssl, mod_http2, nginx, nginx:1.24, pam, polkit, and…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AGPL violations; OpenMDW license; quantum computing and encryption; 7.3 merge window; Remind; Quickshell. Briefs: arrayref; RIP Steve French; Armbian 26.8; Vanilla OS 3;…

Source: LWN.net jzb

The most expensive software bug in history...

Get $100 in Hyperagent bonus credits when you sign up for a paid plan - https://www.hyperagent.com/fireship100 In 2012 Knight Capital lost $440 million dollars because of a rogue feature flag. What did we learn from…

Source: Fireship Fireship
Open Source

GitLab + OpenAI Codex: Fixing Rust Bugs with Terminal AI Agents

Accelerate your DevSecOps workflows by pairing OpenAI's Codex CLI with GitLab to diagnose, fix, and review complex backend issues. In this hands-on demo, Developer Advocate Michael Friedrich shows how to leverage…

Source: GitLab GitLab