PgBouncer 1.26.1 Released With Fixes for Three Security Vulnerabilities
PgBouncer 1.26.1 fixes one SCRAM authentication bypass and two denial-of-service vulnerabilities. The release also restores the expected behavior of the…
pgwatch 6.0 Rebuilds Its Collector So One Stuck Database Can’t Freeze Your Postgres Monitoring
CYBERTEC released pgwatch 6.0 this month, the biggest update since version 5 of its open-source PostgreSQL monitoring tool. It adds support for…
Microsoft Open-Sources a Postgres MCP Server for AI Coding Agents, and Write Access Is On by Default
On October 1, Microsoft open-sourced the Postgres MCP Server, a tool that lets AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot or Claude…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Is Less Than Two Weeks Away, and the Second Beta Is Already Out
KDE Plasma 6.8 is due on October 14, and the project has just shipped a second beta to get there.…
Cloudflare Wants to Become a Free Certificate Authority, and Let’s Encrypt Finally Gets Company
On September 29, Cloudflare announced that it is applying to become a public certificate authority (CA). It has submitted applications…
Linux Just Got a New Way to Collect System Information
On September 25, 2026, systemd introduced systemd-report, a new reporting system that collects Linux system information and runtime metrics into…
Everyone’s Making Videos with Opus 5.5. So Why Do Some People Get Magic and Others Get “Meh”?
If you’ve been anywhere near social media lately, you’ve probably seen them: ink-wash landscapes blooming across the screen, data charts…
Linux Namespaces Explained: How They Work With Practical Examples
Background Containers aren’t magic. They’re ordinary Linux processes with a limited view of the system. Here’s how that works, with…
Kubernetes Is Learning to Run Without Host Root — Here’s What Changes
For most of its history, Kubernetes has assumed that the important parts of a Linux node run as root. The…
systemd 262 Is Here: What It Changes for Linux Boot, Containers, and AI-Generated Code
If you manage Linux servers, you’ve probably had to deal with systemd more times than you can remember. For most…