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Meta announced Llama 3.1 on July 23, 2024, releasing the 405B model it called the world's largest and most capable openly available foundation model, alongside upgraded 8B and 70B models with 128K context. Here are the highlights.

Blender 4.2 LTS was released on July 16, 2024. The long-term support version rewrote the EEVEE render engine to support global illumination and displacement, unified add-ons and themes as installable Extensions, and upgraded Cycles. Here is what changed.

Vitest 2.0 was released on July 8, 2024, changing the default worker pool to forks for compatibility, laying groundwork for a new Browser Mode, and adding a blob reporter, expect.poll, and a test.for helper. Here is what changed.

OpenSSH 9.8 was released on July 1, 2024, fixing a critical race condition in sshd (regreSSHion) that could allow unauthenticated remote root code execution, splitting the server into separate binaries, and adding attacker penalties. Here is what changed.

On July 1, 2024, Qualys disclosed CVE-2024-6387, nicknamed regreSSHion, a signal-handler race condition in OpenSSH's sshd server that on glibc-based Linux could allow unauthenticated remote code execution as root. Here are the confirmed technical facts, affected versions, and remediation.

Terraform 1.9 was released on June 26, 2024, letting input-variable validation rules reference other input variables and objects, adding a templatestring function for dynamic templates, and improving performance for large configurations. Here is what changed.

Playwright 1.45 was released on June 24, 2024, introducing a Clock API to manipulate and control time within tests, a fail-on-flaky-tests CLI option, directory uploads, and a cross-platform ControlOrMeta modifier key. Here is what changed.

TypeScript 5.5 was released on June 20, 2024, adding inferred type predicates that make array filtering smarter, basic regular-expression syntax checking, a JSDoc @import tag, and the isolatedDeclarations option. Here is what changed.

Prometheus 2.53 was released on June 16, 2024, changing the Go GOGC default from 100 to 75 to greatly reduce memory usage with minimal extra CPU, adding a query_offset option for rule resilience, and optimizing regexp-matcher querying. Here is what changed.

Electron 31.0.0 was released on June 11, 2024. It implemented the web standard File System API, removed WebSQL support following Chromium, and added NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS support, alongside Chromium 126, V8 12.6 and Node 20.14. Here is what shipped.

Zig 0.13.0 was released on June 7, 2024 after a short 2-month cycle motivated by the LLVM 18 upgrade. It reworked the std.Progress terminal API, mitigated the BatBadBut Windows vulnerability, and renamed several standard-library APIs. Here is what changed.

Nginx 1.27.0 was released on May 29, 2024, opening a new mainline branch. It patched several HTTP/3 QUIC security issues and added variables support to the proxy_limit_rate, fastcgi_limit_rate, scgi_limit_rate, and uwsgi_limit_rate directives. Here is what changed.