Tech radar: week 40 of 2026
28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026
In the week of 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026, 20 notable open-source releases shipped (including Expo [email protected], OpenAI Python SDK v3.24.0, MCP TypeScript SDK 2.3.0), CISA added 6 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and the most discussed developer story on Hacker News was “Gemini 4 Argon” (1705 points).
Releases worth knowing about
Mobile & desktop
- Add enableRemoteNotifications config plugin option. Set it to false to skip the APNs entitlement for apps that use only local notifications. Default
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Added launch-failure reporting with systemErrorCode to the app child-process-gone event. 54231 <sup(Also in 45)</supmentions security
AI & machine learning
api: add custom voice creation and agent session events (4013) (e5de2e5)
| Package | Version |
pip install -U mcp. Docs: https://py.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/mentions security
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api: add list spend limits endpoint (e8f0cac)
Ollama now supports decision models through /v1/systemone, based on TypeSafe’s Jev API.
Cloud & DevOps
ℹ️ This release adds partial support for jobs: only manually-triggered jobs are supported for now, scheduled jobs are not yet available. Full job supp
- [SECURITY] Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.83.1 to fix HTTP/2 DATA frame fragmentation memory exhaustion (GO-2026-6348). 19834mentions security
- 15928 7f57b1c Thanks @ichernetsky-cf! - Allow "us" as a jurisdiction for Container applications
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1140
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Languages & runtimes
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Testing & security tools
👉 https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/11333mentions security
Web frameworks
This release contains security fixes for the following advisories:mentions security
✨ Add native OpenTelemetry support. PR 16403 by @tiangolo.
[13.x] Include duration in JobProcessed event by @jackbayliss in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/61672
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Actively exploited vulnerabilities
Added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog this week: 6.
| CVE | Product | Weakness | Added |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-86950 | Apple Multiple Products | Apple Multiple Products Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability | 2026-09-29 |
| CVE-2026-76504 | Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager | Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Hex Encoding Vulnerability | 2026-09-30 |
| CVE-2026-88779 | Citrix NetScaler | Citrix NetScaler Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability | 2026-10-04 |
| CVE-2026-104286 | Fortinet FortiMail | Fortinet FortiMail Path Traversal Vulnerability | 2026-10-01 |
| CVE-2026-102490 | Zammad GmbH Zammad | Zammad GmbH Zammad Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability | 2026-10-02 |
| CVE-2026-102489 | Zammad GmbH Zammad | Zammad GmbH Zammad Session Fixation Vulnerability | 2026-10-02 |
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What developers discussed
The most upvoted technology stories on Hacker News during the week.
- 01Gemini 4 Argon1705 points · 1199 comments · 2026-09-30
- 02Pi 1.01689 points · 609 comments · 2026-10-01
- 03Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock1092 points · 459 comments · 2026-09-28
- 04GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price1067 points · 955 comments · 2026-09-29
- 05Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died947 points · 222 comments · 2026-10-04
- 06Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah945 points · 956 comments · 2026-09-28
- 07Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s939 points · 420 comments · 2026-10-04
- 08Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?926 points · 394 comments · 2026-09-29
- 09Sonnet 5.5884 points · 613 comments · 2026-09-28
- 10Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over840 points · 741 comments · 2026-09-29
- 11Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility814 points · 418 comments · 2026-10-01
- 12America.gov780 points · 744 comments · 2026-09-29
How this is made. Compiled automatically from GitHub releases API, Hacker News (Algolia search API), CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Releases cover about 60 widely used projects and include minor/major versions and any release mentioning a security fix. It is a digest, not a complete list: it can miss things. Always check the linked source before acting.