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Deno 2.8, released May 22, adds deno audit fix, deno pack, deno ci, deno transpile, deno why, and deno bump-version, while slashing cold npm install times by 3.66x and enabling Chrome DevTools network traffic inspection.
Google will shut down free access to the Apache 2.0-licensed Gemini CLI on June 18, replacing it with a closed-source Go rewrite that enterprise subscribers alone will inherit.
Microsoft open-sourced its Eclipse IDE Copilot plugin on May 21, releasing roughly 15,000 lines of Java under MIT and drawing 1,200+ stars within hours.
Pyrefly 1.0.0 ships on May 12, 2026 as Meta's production-grade Python type checker, checking 1.8 million lines per second and powering Instagram's codebase.
GitHub Code Quality added code coverage metrics to pull requests on May 26, completing a roadmap item announced at the feature's October 2025 launch.
A 19,000-line Claude Code-assisted PR to add a virtual file system to Node.js core has split the community and forced the TSC toward a binding vote on AI-generated contributions.
Multikernel Technologies releases KernelScript, an Apache 2.0-licensed DSL that generates eBPF, userspace, and kernel module code from a single source file.
The Go team published a formal REST API for pkg.go.dev on May 21, giving tool authors and IDE integrations a stable, versioned interface to module metadata, documentation, symbols, and vulnerability data.
GitHub's npm registry makes staged publishing generally available: packages must pass a human-approved, 2FA-gated queue before consumers can install them.
Epic Games released UE 5.8 Preview on May 12, introducing experimental Mesh Terrain, MetaHuman Crowd scaling, a lighter Lumen mode targeting 60fps on handhelds, and MegaLights graduating to production status.
JUnit 6.1.0, released May 19, absorbs JUnit Pioneer's locale, timezone, and system-property extensions into core while replacing ForkJoinPool with a simpler thread pool for parallel test execution.
VS Code 1.121, released May 20, adds remote agent sessions over SSH and dev tunnels, native Mermaid diagram rendering, HTML file preview, and a new Agent Host Protocol for multi-client agent coordination.