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DNS, proxies, tunnels, VPNs and the paths between your services and the internet.

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Practiceswalkytalky is self-hosted, and self-hosting means your own Firebase project22 SepAn MIT-licensed iOS chat app with real end-to-end encryption and no service behind it. The data plane is Firebase, and the account, the rules and the console are Google's.
GuidesSelf-hosting behind carrier NAT, with a VPS as the bridge22 SepA machine behind carrier-grade NAT reached through a cheap VPS and a WireGuard tunnel, with the home side initiating, the routing split so replies go down the tunnel, and the measured cost in latency.
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Let's Encrypt moves to 64-day certificates in February, and renewal maths has to move with it

From 10 February 2027 Let's Encrypt issues 64-day certificates by default, with the last 90-day certificate expiring on 11 May 2027 and no revocation of what is already out there. Clients that follow ACME Renewal Info handle it; hard-coded offsets need to move to about two thirds of the lifetime, and a third-party test in October found one acme.sh version scheduling its renewal after the certificate had already expired.

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Tailscale's SSH bugs sat after authorisation, and it rejects the worm label

Tailscale shipped v1.104.4 on 28 October with fixes for privilege-boundary bugs in Tailscale SSH and three Serve bugs. The flaws were about what a session could do after it was authorised, not who could connect, and Tailscale argues the 'Tailworm' framing overstates them: exploitation needs an existing foothold in the tailnet and SSH permitted by policy.

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Stalwart reaches 1.0, with a schema meant to end migration projects

Stalwart, the self-hosted mail and collaboration server, announced v1.0 on 26 October. The release finalises the database schema so upgrades stop being migrations, rewrites full-text search with phrase matching and indexing inside PDFs and office documents, and publishes the project's own benchmarks against Postfix and Dovecot.

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ntfy 2.33.1 rebuilds on Go 1.27.3 and makes cluster links visible

ntfy v2.33.1 rebuilds the service with Go 1.27.3 so certificate chains through the compromised eMudhra intermediates are rejected, adds per-peer and database pool metrics for its experimental cluster, and fixes the crash that hit older CPUs in 2.33.0. Take 2.33.1, not 2.33.0.

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Pi-hole v6.5 patches four high-severity local privilege escalations

The security release fixes four high-severity advisories and one low, all paths that turn a foothold as the pihole service account or its configuration surfaces into root, and ships hardening that includes a gravity schema migration; every affected version is patched in 6.5.

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Caddy v2.11.5 is a 119-commit patch, security fixes first

The first release since June carries fixes for a url_pattern authorization bypass, an HTTPoxy hole in FastCGI, slowloris exposure, a sticky-session timing side channel and a Windows path bypass, plus new matcher and header options.

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Technitium 15.5.1 patches a session-token leak and a logs-view XSS

Seven days after the nine-fix 15.5 release, the follow-up patches a session-token prefix oracle that let a low-privilege user recover any active session's full token, a logs-view XSS, and a recursive-resolver regression that broke resolution for some domains.

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