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Vol. I No. 27 Sunday, October 18, 2026 Closing 1:09 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Tech news, October 18, 2026

Sunday: 46 pieces the paper read from primary sources, by section, newest first. Each links to its source; the line under it is the source's own opening.

The morning briefing

As the paper printed it on /brief/ at 13:09 UTC, in the sources' own words.

  1. Leadpg_hint_plan v1.9.0 Released

    The pg_hint_plan development team is pleased to announce pg_hint_plan 1.9.0.

    PostgreSQL
  2. Newspg_utl_smtp v2.0 released

    Antananarivo, Madagascar - October 06, 2026 PostgreSQL UTL_SMTP compatibility extension pg_utl_smtp is a PostgreSQL extension to create, manage and use Oracle-style UTL_SMTP packa…

    PostgreSQL
  3. NewsFOSDEM PGDay 2027: two days of PostgreSQL, with calls for papers and sponsors now open!

    Join us for FOSDEM PGDay 2027 on January 28 and 29 at the Brussels Marriott Hotel Grand Place.

    PostgreSQL
  4. OutageBandwidth Local Market Impairment - 542 - Midland, TX

    We are experiencing an impairment on the Bandwidth network which may affect a portion of calls.

    Bandwidth
  5. SecurityOrphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files: YARA Rule, (Sun, Oct 18th)

    Here is the YARA rule I used to detect " Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files ".

    SANS Internet Storm Center
  6. Deadlinegemini-2.5-flash shuts down in 2 days

    Replacement: gemini-3.8-flash or gemini-3.5-flash-lite or gemini-3.1-flash-lite.

    Google Cloud (Vertex AI)

News

4 pieces.

  1. PostgreSQL00:00 UTCpg_hint_plan v1.9.0 Released

    The pg_hint_plan development team is pleased to announce pg_hint_plan 1.9.0.

  2. PostgreSQL00:00 UTCpg_utl_smtp v2.0 released

    Antananarivo, Madagascar - October 06, 2026 PostgreSQL UTL_SMTP compatibility extension pg_utl_smtp is a PostgreSQL extension to create, manage and use Oracle-style UTL_SMTP packa…

  3. PostgreSQL00:00 UTCFOSDEM PGDay 2027: two days of PostgreSQL, with calls for papers and sponsors now open!

    Join us for FOSDEM PGDay 2027 on January 28 and 29 at the Brussels Marriott Hotel Grand Place.

  4. PostgreSQL00:00 UTCcrecheck v6.0 has been released

    Antananrivo, Madagascar - October 14, 2026 PostgreSQL credcheck extension The credcheck PostgreSQL extension provides few general credential checks, which will be evaluated during…

Security Desk

1 piece.

  1. SANS Internet Storm Center12:59 UTCOrphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files: YARA Rule, (Sun, Oct 18th)

    Here is the YARA rule I used to detect " Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files ".

Technical Guides

1 piece.

  1. Real Python12:00 UTCQuiz: Writing Comments in Python (Guide)

    Test your understanding of how to write clean, useful Python comments, from basic syntax and docstrings to the comment types you should avoid.

AI in the Field

1 piece.

  1. MIT News04:00 UTCGiving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world

    New research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.

Columns

2 pieces.

  1. Eli Bendersky01:18 UTCNotes on the complex roots of unity

    One of the most wonderful aspects of math is how deep we can get by studying seemingly trivial questions.

  2. Sean Goedecke00:00 UTCWriting is no longer proof of work

    Tech companies structurally depend on writing to serve as evidence, in the same way that Bitcoin depends on proof-of-work hashing.

Releases

13 pieces, the newest 12 here.

  1. FastAPI12:42 UTCFastAPI 0.144.0: Add WebSocket support to security dependencies. PR #10147 by @mnixry
  2. ClickHouse12:42 UTCRelease v26.3.55.2-lts
  3. llama.cpp11:14 UTCb11719
  4. vLLM10:23 UTCvLLM 0.32.0: This release features 814 commits from 363 contributors (121 new)!
  5. FastAPI09:12 UTCFastAPI 0.143.5: Fix handling of empty value for byte file list parameter. PR #9383 by @Viicos
  6. LiteLLM05:53 UTCLiteLLM 1.106.0: Verify Docker Image Signature
  7. Rollup05:33 UTCv5.0.0-1
  8. Neovim05:22 UTCNvim development (prerelease) build
  9. DeepSpeed05:13 UTCnightly-last-green: Release process-group caches before CPU/Gloo worker shutdown (#8846)
  10. llama.cpp04:45 UTCb11718
  11. llama.cpp02:53 UTCb11717
  12. OpenAI Python SDK01:05 UTCOpenAI Python SDK 3.35.1: preserve beta Realtime byte reads on websockets 13 (#4102) (5766349)

New Repos & Packages

6 pieces.

  1. npm #ai-agent12:55 UTCagent-afk 5.322.18
  2. npm #ai-agent08:44 UTCpi-mcp-extension 1.9.8
  3. npm #ai-agent07:57 UTC@tangle-network/create-agent-app 0.60.192
  4. npm #ai-agent07:55 UTC@tangle-network/agent-app 0.60.192
  5. npm #mcp06:15 UTCfallow 3.34.1
  6. npm #ai-agent03:54 UTC@nanmicoder/dsh-agent-teams 0.1.25

Package releases

18 from the most used packages' own repositories, the newest 15 here.

  1. 13:10 UTCstrtok3 v10.6.2 · every release →
  2. 13:02 UTCpestphp/pest v5.3.3 · every release →
  3. 12:58 UTCguzzlehttp/guzzle 8.2.1 · every release →
  4. 12:53 UTCnodemailer v10.1.6 · every release →
  5. 12:48 UTCguzzlehttp/promises 3.1.0 · every release →
  6. 07:33 UTCtox 4.67.1 · every release →
  7. 07:26 UTCfilelock 4.2.2 · every release →
  8. 07:06 UTCvirtualenv 21.14.11 · every release →
  9. 07:00 UTCpyproject-api 1.12.0 · every release →
  10. 06:54 UTCpytest-env 1.8.1 · every release →
  11. 06:33 UTCxxhash v3.7.3 · every release →
  12. 05:44 UTCexeca v10.2.0 · every release →
  13. 03:56 UTCejs v7.0.2 · every release →
  14. 03:13 UTC@tanstack/query-core release-2026-10-17-1753 · every release →
  15. 02:12 UTCfastmcp v4.1.1 · every release →