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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.

Biome v2, released June 2025, introduces type-aware lint rules and a plugin system without requiring tsc, reaching v2.4 by February 2026.

OpenSSL 4.0.0 landed on April 14 as the library's first major version bump since 2018, adding ECH, post-quantum hybrid key exchange, and removing the legacy engine API and SSLv3.

Gradle 9.5.0 and its patch 9.5.1 bring clearer diagnostics, CI-resilient wrapper downloads, and long-awaited Kotlin DSL improvements.

Google's I/O 2026 Android Studio release introduces multi-step Agent Mode, a Migration Assistant that ports iOS and React Native apps to Kotlin in hours, a stable Android CLI for AI agents, and a new performance analyzer with 26x faster trace rendering.

VoidZero's Vitest 4.1 adds pytest-style test tags, an experimental mode to bypass Vite's module runner, async leak detection, and a reporter optimized for AI coding agents.

Jarred Sumner merged PR

After a March 2026 launch that left users contending with broad ACL changes and stale sandbox profiles, OpenAI published a stricter design splitting Codex into offline and online local users with DPAPI-protected credentials and a command-runner handoff.

GitHub released the Enterprise Server 3.21 release candidate on May 13, making organization custom properties generally available along with Projects hierarchy views, REST API 2026-03-10, and secret scanning and Actions workflow improvements.