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.NET 8 and .NET 9 Reach End of Support on November 10 as .NET 11 Ships; Microsoft's Table Lists November 14, 2028 for Both .NET 10 and .NET 11
Microsoft's materials give November 10, 2026 as the end-of-support date for .NET 8 (LTS) and .NET 9 (STS), the day .NET 11 shipped; its releases table lists November 14, 2028 for both .NET 10 (LTS) and .NET 11 (STS).
Confluent Makes Lightning Tables Generally Available on AWS, With Latency Figures From Its Own Internal Testing; an IDC Analyst Asks for Benchmarks
Confluent, an IBM company, said Lightning Tables, a read-only Kafka serving layer, is generally available on AWS on November 4, 2026. Its release attributes the latency figures to internal testing; IDC's Stewart Bond said it would be nice to see benchmarks.
Google Cloud Spend Caps Reach General Availability for a Limited Set of Services; Release Notes Say October 13, Google's Blog Says October 31
Google Cloud spend caps on Cloud Billing Budgets are generally available for four services, with an API and monthly resets; Google's release notes date it October 13 and its blog October 31, and the cited pages differ on which costs trigger a cap.
Licenses After AI Rewrites: chardet Went From LGPL to MIT to 0BSD, Modular Bars AI Reimplementation of MAX and Asahi Linux Starts Moving to the GPL
Sources describe divergent licensing moves tied to AI-assisted rewrites of open-source code: chardet went from LGPL to MIT to 0BSD, Modular added a clause against AI reimplementation of MAX, and Asahi Linux began a switch to the GPL.
Percona's Quick Test Finds MongoDB 9.0.4 About 6% Faster Than 8.0 and 8.3 When CPU-Bound; MongoDB Cites Up to 20% Higher Transactional Throughput
Percona's quick test of MongoDB 9.0.4 on one workload found it used less CPU per operation than 8.0 and 8.3 and was about 6% faster when CPU-bound; MongoDB's launch cited up to 20% higher transactional throughput.
systemd Merges Optional Rust Support for New Standalone Programs, With Meson Only, No Standard Library and Core Libraries Staying in C for Now
systemd merged optional Rust support for new leaf programs on 2026-10-24: Meson not Cargo, no_std, core libraries stay C for now. It is in the 263 development branch; project pages disagree on binary sizes and Meson version.
Safari 27.3 Beta Adds Adaptive Dark Mode, Which WebKit Says Darkens Light Pages for Users Who Enable It and Skips Pages Declaring Dark-Mode Support
WebKit says Safari 27.3 beta's Adaptive Dark Mode darkens light pages for users who enable it but leaves alone pages that declare dark-mode support; the opt-out keyword it names is unsupported in beta 1.
A Benchmark Has Claude Code Build One Small Pokémon App in 12 JavaScript Stacks, With Median Costs From $2.67 (Hono and htmx) to $4.97 (Angular)
Nolan Lawson's benchmark, published October 28, had Claude Code (Opus 5.5) build one small Pokémon app in 12 JavaScript stacks; median cost at API prices ranged from $2.67 to $4.97 per build.
Postman Desktop Auto-Installed Codex and Claude Code Plugins on a Developer's Mac, a GitHub Report Says; Postman Says It Is Reverting the Change
A developer's GitHub report says Postman desktop 12.33.4 installed plugins into Claude Code and Codex on his Mac; on November 5 a Postman organization member said the change is being reverted and the experience redesigned.
MinIO, LocalStack, Boundary and Portainer Ended or Froze Community Editions From December 2025 to October 2026, With Differing Security-Fix Positions
MinIO, LocalStack and Boundary archived their community-edition repositories and Portainer kept CE on its 2.x line; sources show four different security-fix statements.
Google Announces Donation of gVisor, Agent Substrate and OpenRL to the CNCF, Now in Sandbox Onboarding, as Agent Substrate 1.0 Reaches GA on GKE
Google says the three projects are in CNCF Sandbox onboarding and Agent Substrate 1.0 is GA on GKE; it says neutral governance opens a path to upstream gVisor kernel patches, while LWN's 2022 report on one proposal records technical objections.
Node.js, ASP.NET Core 2.3, CPython's JIT and Kubernetes' kube-dns Each Carry a Different Notice: Calendar, Policy Minimum, Council Window, Versions
Sources on four 2026 changes show four notice models: a published Node.js calendar, Microsoft's 12-month minimum for ASP.NET Core 2.3, a Python Steering Council window for the JIT, and Kubernetes version targets.