This week in software: Aug 24–30, 2026

Added a configurable grace period for discovering tools from optional MCP servers; Extensions can now inspect or replace MCP tool results before they reach the model; Plugin…

Ollama's app now follows the system appearance again, restoring dark mode support; Fixed the macOS app to properly hand off to an already-running instance instead of starting a…

Handle async component unmount before lazy hydration; Handle moving unresolved async fragment; Avoid caching unmounted suspense children; Keep .trim result when combined with…

Consent-gated real-profile browsing using your default Chromium profile for local browsing with Windows close-with-approval flow; Desktop Browser with its own OS window and…

Allow a domain-restricted credential to work in its own node

Replace the email system with the Briefing/Alert/Verdict/Ops design; Add selectable askquestion options and Needs-You prompting rule to Copilot; Show live compaction progress in…

Azure authentication so Azure CLI sign-in works without requiring Bun

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

Add hard fail and clear error message when an autolinking plugin host is referenced as a dependency in SwiftPM; Bump Hermes to version 250829098.0.17; Type Animated.Value.addListen…

Fixed node --version reporting an alpha version designation

Add support for GLM-5.3-Flash, a natively multimodal model with 320B total parameters and 18B active parameters; Restore backward compatibility for the tensor-parallel API; Fix…

webContents.print() now honors printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings; Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not be attached; the…

customhudlayout entity for scripted maps to provide custom UI with support for Panel, Label, Image, and Button panel types; CSS styling support for customhudlayout entities…

Agent shell and code execution can now run on E2B cloud sandboxes in addition to local sandbox, selectable via DIFYAGENTRUNTIMEBACKEND environment variable; Build-time Home…

Answer MCP elicitation with a LangGraph interrupt; Port MCP tool conversion from langchain-mcp-adapters; langchain.mcp namespace and MCPAdapter; Standard model exception types…

Window Hopper utility for quickly cycling through windows from the same app using a configurable shortcut; Update channel selection in Settings with Stable and Insider options for…

avoid prototype member collisions in common; use locale NaN symbol in number formatting; scope animations declared in minified nested rules; default template diagnostic related…

Human in the loop tool approval where administrators can enable requiring manual approval for tool execution in conversations; Built-in tool allowing models to pause and ask up to…

Added PreModelSwitch and PostModelSwitch hook events to block, confirm, or annotate a model switch; SessionStart resume hooks now receive session staleness and estimated re-cache…

Add support for 'text/x-component' content type in compressible; Add clipboard API for desktop; Support checked, icon, and tooltip on desktop menu items; Isolate esbuild downloads…

Fix minimax music not working on non dynamic vram; Add MiniMaxH3AddGuide for anchoring image and audio guides at any frame; Bump comfyui-frontend-package to 1.49.6; Speedup Gemma4…

Add theme.focusVisible opt-in keyboard focus ring across components; Prevent sticky hover border on touch devices in buttongroup; Complete Traditional Chinese localization…

Roll to Firefox 154.0; Support shadow roots in MutationPoller; Support canceling tool execution in webmcp; Roll to Chrome 152.0.7977.54; Set frame content without document.write

Bug fixes and small improvements.

Support for installing registry items from private GitHub repositories using the GitHub CLI or a token

New HealthLake API RestoreFHIRDatastore providing capability to restore active datastores to a point in time within the last 30 days or recover a deleted datastore from the delete…

Dynamically resolve Cloud Workstations proxy redirect URI for OAuth flows; Resolve swallowed directory mismatch in IDE connections; Add evaluation validation functionality; Add…

Codex third-party provider switching now uses config-only mode, storing API keys in the provider's own [modelproviders.] table (experimentalbearertoken field) instead of…

Decode Context Parallel (DCP) support for Kimi-K3; Fused FlashKDA decode and prefill kernels for Kimi-K3; SiTU activation support for MegaMoE; GEMM-RS for sequence parallelism…

Robot Framework .robot/.resource files are now extracted with optional [robot] extra, including suites, test cases, user keywords, keyword-call edges, and resource/library…

Restore the edgePaths class on the edge group in rendered SVG and point the flowchart, block and user journey stylesheets at it

ESM packages for all core Nest packages with CommonJS compatibility through require(esm) in Node.js v20.19+ or v22.12+; Standard Schema validation support via schema option in…

New skill constraint-driven-development establishes a project's quality bar as a written contract in CONSTRAINTS.md, interviews on relevant dimensions, supplies defaults, maps…

Add nub package manager support; Update moved eslint-react plugin links in generated README

Fixed an issue where inactive tabs were also being closed when all active tabs were selected for closing; Fixed an error that was appearing after signing in to the built-in VPN