This week in software: Aug 17–23, 2026

Added an interactive codex agents dashboard for searching, starting, opening, renaming, and stopping tasks, with configurable shortcuts; Added /cd, /pwd, and /cwd commands for…

Bot Mode group-room threads; Foldable conversation summaries; Blob-face avatars; PDF and file attachments with drag and drop support; Keyless web tier with 5-vendor free rotation…

Radiant Regeneration heal on cast reduced from 70 to 65; Restorative Locket spirit resistance reduced from 10% to 8%; Celeste Dazzling Trick cooldown increased from 32s to 34s…

Raise AI Assistant model verification token limit

AI-voice narrative in morning briefing; Per-expert spend tracking on home team cards; Launch roster with real workflow bundles; Writing-style capture in hire flow; Sidebar team…

Updated Boulder map to the latest version from the Community Workshop; Updated Poseidon map to the latest version from the Community Workshop; Fixed a case where player speed was…

Continue responses when a model reports an unknown finish reason instead of stopping early; Route Vertex AI eu and us multi-region Gemini requests through REP endpoints; Keep file…

Deprecate numberofdigits utility function; Deprecate randomuuidv4 utility function; Make floatornone catch OverflowError; Update randomuseragent version range from 144-150 to…

New desktop onboarding flow on first launch; Cache resolved model metadata between requests to reduce time-to-first-token; Fix a bug where chat and generate could wedge after a…

See kubernetes-announce@. Additional binary downloads are linked in the CHANGELOG.

Bug fixes and reliability improvements

Fix DFlash candidate token device mismatch with devicemap="auto"; Align logit distributions for CandidateGenerators using sampling; Fix MTP config when mlplayertypes is absent…

DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(); registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol…

Detect object trigger values with Object.hasOwn in animations; Preserve literal key union in KeyValuePipe.transform(); Preserve &ngsp; between sibling control flow blocks in…

Add standard model exception types to core; Support custom tokencounter in ContextEditingMiddleware; Re-raise non-retryable exceptions in ModelRetryMiddleware; Preserve final…

Address stability and usability issues; Fix various bugs

Kafka consumer-specific security protocol is not taken into account; Temporary file is not deleted when ExportedImageTar construction fails; spring-boot-h2-console pulls…

Flow Creator foundational agent in the AI Catalog to create custom flows for the GitLab Duo Agent Platform through plain-language conversation; GitLab Duo can now resolve merge…

Require a 'cases' block on switch steps in workflows; Strip the resolved value before matching switch cases in workflows; Reject non-string manifest list members in bundler…

Manage Pi as the ninth managed application with vendor forms, prompt library, Skills, session browser, and usage statistics; View Pi session usage in the dashboard by model with…

Downloads: https://elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch

Control characters in node labels or IDs no longer abort exports; the GraphML and Obsidian exporters scrub only the characters those formats forbid while preserving tabs…

@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything updated to 2026.8.18; mcp-server-time updated to 2026.8.18; mcp-server-fetch updated to 2026.8.18; mcp-server-git updated to 2026.8.18

computeSystemExecutablePath now supports validatePath parameter; Launch browsers in detached mode on Windows to fix flakiness; Improved error messaging to tell users how to…

NVIM v0.12.5

Show artwork and a play button when opening a Sonos music library album; Pass config entry explicitly in Supla coordinator; Handle case where errors could be None in Shelly Wall…

Updated CLI documentation for Backup Audit Manager List Job Summaries APIs; Updated DataProtectionConfig field key documentation in WAFv2; Added support to CreateRemoveAccessSessio…

Add Bazel 9 test coverage for csharp, hpb, objc, php, python, rust and upb; Make defaultsymbolvisibility STRICT in edition 2026; Add deprecation warnings for pygenericservice…

Add private repository support to GitHub registries via GitHub CLI credentials or GHTOKEN; Add npx shadcn migrate base-color command to switch a project's base color

Full Changelog: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/compare/v0.55.1...v0.56.0

preserve CSS escape sequences when printing selectors; parse :nth-child(2n of.foo) where of is not followed by whitespace; transform expressions inside labeled statements during…

To install Bun v1.4

Production exports now complete in under a minute instead of ten when fonts or images fail to load, delivering the image or PDF anyway while genuine failures report their reason…

Release channels: canary, nightly, beta, and stable with progressive promotion gates; Decisions workflow allowing agents to propose multi-option actions for human approval with…

Render C4 elements through the unified shape system, using the new person shape; Route classDiagram to the unified (v2) renderer by default; Add collapsible flowchart subgraphs…

Installer pins in install.sh and install.ps1 were out of sync with bin/install.js and the documented one-liners, causing the v2.3.0 one-liner to bootstrap the previous release…