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A quiet release day. The notable item is PostgreSQL 19 slipping because of AI-generated reports and patches. Routine kernel, Wine, Wireshark and Ubuntu cycle news filled out the rest.
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PostgreSQL 19 is delayed to November or later. Phoronix says AI-generated bug reports and patches overwhelmed developers. Robert Haas writes the cause is quality concerns and warns LLMs may find many long-hidden bugs.
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Greg Kroah-Hartman released eight stable kernel updates, including 7.3.1 and 7.2.14, with more security fixes flagged. These are relevant to the MPTCP fix.
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GitHub posted an incident affecting Actions, Pages and Webhooks. The summary gives no duration or cause.
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Microsoft fixed Always On VPN connection failures caused by the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates.
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Wireshark 5.0.0rc1 is out, signaling an upcoming major version of the network analyzer.
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Ubuntu 27.04 'Tenacious T-Rex' development has opened, shortly after the release of Ubuntu 26.10.
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Wine 11.21 improves WoW64 OpenGL performance. The Wine 12.0 stable release is expected next month.
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Firezone released sanstun, a sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust.
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GNOME adopted a formal RFC process for major technical decisions, alongside ongoing GNOME OS improvements.
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In recent weeks GNOME developers have been discussing a formal Request For Comments "RFC" process for solving major technical questions and changes to GNOME. This formalized process for succeeding their ad-hoc processes up to now has reached consensus...
NVIDIA released CUDA Oxide 0.3, its experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler, with substantially improved Rust support.
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NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months...
Sculpt OS 26.10 is released and now runs on Genode's own microkernel instead of a third-party one.
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Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system project born out of the Genode initiative is now using the project's own microkernel rather than a third-party microkernel...
Delivery company Deliveroo details tuning its mobile networking stack with Cloudflare to speed up HTTP/3 and reduce latency.
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How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
PostgreSQL 19 is delayed to November or later because AI-generated bug reports and patches overwhelmed developers.
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The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it's not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed...
LWN reports on Carlos Llamas removing the C implementation of Android's Binder driver in favour of the Rust version.
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The final talk at Kangrejos 2026 was about the removal of the C implementation of Android's Binder driver, the primary interprocess communication mechanism used on Android devices. Carlos Llamas announced that he had deleted the C code to general applause, and then shared some insights about what went into replacing the C implementation. Alice Ryhl, who has worked on the Rust implementation for some years, added her own thoughts about what the most difficult and interesting parts of the transition were.
Cloudflare made its services for private origins, including WAF, bot management, caching, and Workers, generally available to Cloudflare One customers.
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Public traffic to private origins, with WAF, bot management, caching, and Workers, is now available to every customer with Cloudflare One connectivity.
KDE Plasma 6.9 development brings several performance optimizations.
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I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up...
Ceph kernel client changes for Linux 7.4 add a global mount option for lazy I/O.
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The Ceph kernel client changes have been submitted for Linux 7.4 ahead of its merge window expected to wrap up on Sunday...
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 adds improvements for Linux gamers using recent NVIDIA drivers with Proton.
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DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux...
A support engineer's write-up describes troubleshooting a customer who could only see a black screen.
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The Archive of Our Own (AO3) fan fiction site went offline for maintenance, per its status page.
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Article URL: https://www.otwstatus.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310258 Points: 76 # Comments: 11
A blog post on running the classic BeOS operating system in the Infinite Mac emulator.
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Article URL: https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309029 Points: 32 # Comments: 5