
Victoria Shinder: A vendor patch is a change nobody on your team reviewed, and it ships anyway
Every release process guards the code it writes. Almost none guard the code that arrives on somebody else's schedule.

Every release process guards the code it writes. Almost none guard the code that arrives on somebody else's schedule.
The workaround everyone built - put the body in S3 and publish a pointer - is no longer required for messages under a megabyte.
The paste failed silently - no beep, no error, source still selected. The Register reports a fix has arrived for Excel 2016 only.
OpenID Connect gets specialised support, routing and request handling get quality-of-life changes, and the Kotlin Multiplatform client gets better defaults.
Point schema_cache_path at a .json file and Active Record stops paying the YAML cost at boot. A new herb:check task compiles every ERB template and fails the build.
Build 16 is tagged. The targeted list now includes a Simple JSON API in incubator, generational Shenandoah by default, and the deprecation of the macOS/x64 port.
The Rust project warns of an ongoing campaign against maintainers of popular crates. The target is the publish token, not the laptop.
pgAdmin 4 v9.18 closes an authentication bypass and two connection-string injections that redirect the connection, and the exported password, to a host of the caller's choosing.
A process for tracking, investigating and disclosing model behaviour, plus six cases observed over the last six months.