Releases, open source, developer tools and the changes that affect how software is built and run.
Firefox 159, released October 27, fixes 167 security vulnerabilities, 108 of them rated high, and turns on scroll-driven animations and scoped custom element registries by default.
Canonical released Ubuntu 26.10 on October 15, a nine-month interim release with GNOME 51, a Linux 7.3 kernel, Rust-based core utilities and Sequoia PGP for repository signature checks.
Windows 11 version 24H2 Home and Pro, Office 2021 and the final year of paid extended updates for Windows Server 2012 all reached the end of their support on October 13, 2026.
Python 3.15.0, released October 9, adds opt-in lazy imports, an immutable frozendict type and UTF-8 as the default text encoding, along with an upgraded experimental JIT compiler.
Unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations now expire 48 hours after creation, and npm rejects tokens from comment-triggered GitHub Actions workflows, GitHub said on October 2.
