Worth your time: week of 5 October
Five pieces from the week of 5 October, picked as an edit: the ones that still matter after the week they ran.
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01Memos 26.10-rc.1 drops the v1 API marker and renames its methodsThe release candidate removes the v1 version marker, moves every REST route and gRPC procedure, renames a long list of methods and fields, and gives the old paths one release of 410 Gone, alongside editor suggestions and audio transcription.
02Debian's kernel update has 1,313 reasons attachedDSA-6528-1 lands an enormous CVE list in Debian 13's stable kernel. The count is the story: triage, then the reboot.
03coreboot 26.09 hardens its parsers and writes down an AI policyOver 1,300 commits from 120 authors, audits across every external format the firmware parses, DDR5 SPD caching with TPM-backed verification, and rules for how AI may comment on patches.
04Ubuntu 26.10 completes the Rust coreutils switch and adds Sequoia PGPcp, mv and rm are the last GNU utilities to go; sq and sqv arrive in the main archive beside gpg, and the OpenSSH packages split to shed a Kerberos patch upstream never took.
05OpenRadioss is gone, and the repository was deleted, not archivedFour years after Altair open-sourced its crash-simulation solver, Siemens says it is consolidating efforts into Simcenter, and the GitHub repository has simply been removed.