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Scala 3.8.4 Ships Security Hardening From the OSTIF and Quarkslab Audit, Patching a Scaladoc XSS and a TASTy Parser Infinite Loop
The maintenance release folds in fixes from Scala's first external security audit, which found no critical or major issues but flagged a stored XSS in Scaladoc and an infinite loop in TASTy parsing.
Postgres Managed by ClickHouse Enters Public Beta, Free Until Metering Begins June 15
ClickHouse moved its NVMe-backed managed Postgres service to public beta at Open House 2026, pairing transactional Postgres with native CDC into ClickHouse. It stays free until metering starts June 15.
VS Code 1.123 Syncs Agent Sessions to GitHub and Adds a /chronicle Command, Pushing the Editor Toward Persistent AI Workflows
The June 3 release adds cross-machine chat session sync, a Research Agent preview, 1M-token context windows, and a two-hour delay on extension updates.
Rust Foundation Launches Maintainers Fund and a 'Maintainer in Residence' Program to Pay Core Compiler, Cargo, and Clippy Developers
The Rust Foundation opened a donation-backed fund on June 2 to pay maintainers of the compiler, standard library, Cargo, and Clippy, with the first Maintainer in Residence expected in the coming months.
Kotlin 2.4.0 Ships Stable Context Parameters and Explicit Backing Fields, Retiring the K1 Compiler
JetBrains released Kotlin 2.4.0 on June 4, promoting context parameters and explicit backing fields to Stable, dropping the K1 compiler, and adding Swift package dependencies for Multiplatform.
Ruby's Bundler Adds an Opt-In 'Cooldown' That Skips Gem Versions Until They Have Been Public for a Set Number of Days
Bundler 4.0.13's cooldown filter excludes brand-new gem versions from dependency resolution to blunt supply-chain attacks that exploit the minutes after a malicious release.
Gleam 1.17 Adds 'gleam export escript' for Single-File BEAM Programs and a Create-Module Code Action
Gleam v1.17.0 bundles whole programs into a single escript runnable with only Erlang installed, and adds a language-server action that creates missing modules on import.
systemd 261 Reaches Its First Release Candidate With a Built-In OS Installer, a Cloud Metadata Subsystem, and Live-Update Kernel Handover
systemd 261-rc1 adds systemd-sysinstall, an IMDS subsystem, a storagectl tool, and PID1 support for the kernel's Live Update Orchestration and Kexec Handover.
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 Lands With Parallel Autovacuum, Self-Scaling Async I/O, and a Planner-Hint Extension
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1, released June 4, brings parallel autovacuum, self-scaling async I/O workers, a new pg_plan_advice planner extension, SQL/PGQ graph queries, and turns JIT off by default. GA is targeted for September/October 2026.
Elixir 1.20 Ships as a Gradually Typed Language, Capping a Type-System Effort Begun in 2022
The June 3 stable release completes Elixir's first type-system milestone: the compiler now infers and gradually type-checks every program for verified bugs without requiring any annotations.
Automotive Grade Linux Ships First Open Source SoDeV Reference Platform for Software-Defined Vehicles, Adds Five New Members
AGL released the initial SoDeV reference platform in its 'Ultimate Unagi' code base on May 14, 2026, bundling Xen, Zephyr, and Linux containers to decouple vehicle software from hardware.
SvelteKit's June 2026 Releases Push Remote Functions Forward With Real-Time query.live and Breaking Changes Across Five Versions
SvelteKit shipped versions 2.57.0 through 2.61.0, advancing its experimental remote functions with a new query.live primitive and several breaking changes to queries and forms.