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PCL2 Killed Its Minecraft Downloader. Here Is What It Means
On October 20, PCL and HMCL both shut down Minecraft downloads in mainland China. The confirmed timeline, the official wording, the rumor, and what it signals.
Grafana 13.3 fixes ten CVEs, then quietly makes panel subtitles and the auto grid the default
The 13.3.0 changelog opens with ten CVE fixes before any features: panel subtitles, the auto grid as default, and server-side search for Recently Deleted come after.
Home Assistant 2026.11: HACS becomes a built-in Marketplace, 38 new integrations, biggest release yet
2026.11 turns the community store into a built-in Marketplace, adds excluding items from a target, reworks entity naming, and brings Matter camera talkback and LoRaWAN.
Immich 3.3.6 is an apology: onnxruntime enabled telemetry by default and the ML container reported to Microsoft
A patch release that opens with an apology: onnxruntime turned telemetry on by default, so Immich's ML container reported anonymous metrics to Microsoft. 3.3.6 turns it off.
Loki 4.0 hits RC: the Go module path moves to /v4, the V2 query engine is unplugged, BoltDB shipper retires
The 4.0.0 release candidates carry a long breaking-change list: module path /v4, no V2 query engine, protobuf by default, and S3 limited to STANDARD and STANDARD_IA.
Node.js 26 becomes LTS 'Lithium': the release that changed almost nothing, and that is the point
26.13.0 moves the 26.x line into long-term support until April 2029. 24.22.2 shipped the same day and 27.0.0-alpha followed. Read this one for the silence, not the features.