Tech Changelog – 2026-01-30

📁 Backend

Laravel

• 🏷️ New Release: v12.49.0
  • Repo: laravel/framework
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  • Laravel 12.49.0 includes numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements:
  • Clean up compiled views after parallel testing.
  • Add support for “where subquery between columns”.
  • Use searchable prompt for db:table command.
  • Preserve a single NotificationSender instance.
  • Allow enum keys in Cache::flexible() and withoutOverlapping().
  • Add preserveKeys method to AnonymousResourceCollection.
  • Bump tar dependency from 7.5.3 to 7.5.6.
  • Fix memory leak in Arr::dot() and multibyte safety in Str::afterLast().
  • Ensure session helpers (now, flash) accept enums.
  • Revert aliasing change for selecting database expressions.
  • Add hasSole() method to collections.
  • Skip message serialization when log level is not handled.
  • Add missing @param documentation to SessionGuard constructor.
  • Handle immutable Carbon objects correctly.
  • Enhance index hint validation for multiple indexes.
  • Make QueueFake::assertPushedTimes public and ignore deadlock on DatabaseLock release.
  • Allow down --retry command to accept datetime values.

Node.js

• 🏷️ New Release: v25.5.0
  • Repo: nodejs/node
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  • Security & Root CAs
    • Updated root certificates to NSS 3.119 – keeps HTTPS handling up‑to‑date.
  • New Dependencies & Build Enhancements
    • Added LIEF (and tooling scripts) for binary manipulation.
    • --build-sea flag now generates SEA binaries directly from the Node.js build.
    • Split SEA binary‑manipulation code into its own module.
    • Updated SQLite to 3.51.2, enabled defensive mode by default, and added prepare‑options args.
    • NPM upgraded to 11.8.0; several other core libraries (icu, zlib, V8) were bumped.
  • Core Library Improvements
    • fs.watch now accepts an ignore option for selective event filtering.
    • Added --shared-nbytes configure flag and various build‑time fixes (ldflags typo, Windows logs, ClangCL handling).
    • Added support for unsigned IPC length headers in child_process.
    • Fixed port reuse bug in the cluster module.
  • Testing & Benchmarking
    • New SQLite benchmarks added.
    • SEA tests now use --build-sea and fixture directories.
    • test_runner now supports expected failures, fixes memory leaks, and improves coverage reporting.
    • Added numerous web‑platform tests for URL parsing, WebCryptoAPI enums, and more.
• 📰 OpenSSL Security Advisory Assessment, January 2026
  • Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:00:00 GMT
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Bun

• 🏷️ New Release: bun-v1.3.8
  • Repo: oven-sh/bun
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  • Bun v1.3.8 released
  • Install via curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash or npm install -g bun
  • Windows installation: powershell -c "irm bun.sh/install.ps1|iex"
  • Upgrade command: bun upgrade
  • Release notes available on Bun’s blog
  • 4 contributors thanked: @dylan-conway, @jarred-sumner, @robobun, @sosukesuzuki
• 🌐 Page Updated: Bun: Bun v1.3.8
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  • Changed: 2026-01-30T15:11:17.397052
    • New feature: Bun.markdown – a fast CommonMark‑compliant parser written in Zig (md4c port).
    • API: .html(), .render() with custom JS callbacks, .react() for React elements.
    • Supports GFM extensions (tables, strikethrough, task lists, autolinks) and options like wikiLinks, latexMath, headingIds, autolinkHeadings.
    • CLI improvement: bun build --metafile-md generates a Markdown visualization of the bundle graph, useful for LLM‑friendly analysis. Can output JSON+Markdown or custom filenames.
    • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected napi_typeof return value (fixes native addon crashes).
    • Resolved heap snapshot and node:vm crashes.
    • Fixed HTTP/2 stream handling for gRPC, npm install on Windows, and other runtime issues.

Rust

• 📰 2025 Rust Foundation Annual Report Project Director Update
  • Published: 2026-01-27T00:00:00+00:00
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  • Preview: The Rust Foundation has published two documents today, addressing what their funding supported in 2025 and their 2026-2028 strategic plan.

📁 Database

PostgreSQL

• 📰 PIG v1.0 Released with PGEXT.CLOUD : 444 PG extensions on 14 Linux
  • Published: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000
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  • Preview: The PostgreSQL extension package manager pig v1.0 is now generally available alongside PGEXT.CLOUD, an open infrastructure for extension discovery and binary delivery. The catalog lists 444 extensions

📁 Platform

Firefox

• 🌐 Page Updated: Firefox Releases
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  • Changed: 2026-01-30T15:18:23.718742
    • Firefox 147.0.2 released Jan 27, 2026 (Release channel).
    • New experimental feature: customizable keyboard shortcuts (about:keyboard).
    • Fixed bugs: XDG Base Directories on Linux (Bug 2011300), excess passkey prompts (Bug 2010919), SafeBrowsing mis‑flagging (Bug 2010956).
    • Various security fixes.

📁 Tooling

Git and GitHub

• 📰 Codespaces is now in public preview for GitHub Enterprise with data residency
  • Published: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:25:07 +0000
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  • Preview: GitHub Codespaces is now available in public preview for GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. You can now use secure, configurable, instantly available cloud development environments while mai

Docker

• 🌐 Page Updated: Docker Release Notes
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  • Changed: 2026-01-30T15:20:03.376222
    • Docker Engine v29.2.0 (released 2026‑01‑26)

Visual Studio Code

• 🏷️ New Release: 1.108.2
  • Repo: microsoft/vscode
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  • VS Code v1.108.2 – Minor update that resolves a set of bugs linked to the “December 2025 Recovery 2” milestone.
  • See full release notes and issue list at the provided GitHub tag page and VS Code updates site.

📁 Llms

OpenAI

• 🌐 Page Updated: ChatGPT Release Notes
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  • Changed: 2026-01-30T15:22:12.161589
    • Model retirements: GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini and OpenAI o4-mini will be retired Feb 13 2026; GPT‑5 (Instant & Thinking) also retiring.
    • New model release: GPT‑5.2 (Instant, Thinking, Pro) released Nov 12 2025 with August 2025 knowledge cutoff, improved reasoning, structured explanations, and better performance on technical tasks.
    • Search & browsing:
    • Jan 26 2026 – Better search responses in ChatGPT Voice, including shopping results.
    • Personalization enhancements:
    • Jan 22 2026 – GPT‑5.2 Instant’s default personality updated; users can still adjust style/tone.
• 🌐 Page Updated: OpenAI Dev Changelog
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  • Changed: 2026-01-30T15:22:45.840672
    • Codex CLI 0.92.0 (released 2026‑01‑27):
      • Web search is now enabled by default; can be toggled to “cached”, “live” or “disabled”.
      • New API v2 threads: dynamic tool injection, thread filtering, unarchive RPC, OAuth scopes in config.toml.
      • Multi‑agent collaboration enhancements (explorer role, guardrails).
      • Bug fixes for TUI deadlock, web_search handling, CPU usage, resume parsing, UTF‑8 logging, request_user_input validation.
    • Codex CLI 0.91.0 (released 2026‑01‑25):
      • Reduced max sub‑agents to 6.
    • Codex CLI 0.90.0 (released 2026‑01‑25):
      • Network sandbox proxy, connectors support, beta collaboration mode in TUI, ephemeral threads, WebSocket proxy config, stricter multi‑agent limits.
    • Codex CLI 0.89.0 (released 2026‑01‑22):
      • /permissions and /skill slash commands; improved thread/read filtering; layered config.toml resolution; stable URL for published config schema.

📁 Cloud

AWS

• 📰 Announcing increased 1 MB payload size support in Amazon EventBridge
  • Published: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:30:00 GMT
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  • Preview: Amazon EventBridge increases event payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB, enabling developers to ingest richer, complex payloads for their event-driven workloads without the need to split, compress, or ext

Google Cloud Platform

• 📰 January 30, 2026
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  • Preview: Carbon Footprint
    Fixed
    We have corrected the issue resulting in incomplete Cloud Run emissions data for
    November and December 2025. Customers who used Cloud Run during this period can
    now access the c

📁 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Optech

• 📰 Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #390
  • Published: 2026-01-30T00:00:00+00:00
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  • Preview: This week’s newsletter summarizes a more efficient approach to garbled circuits and links to an LN-Symmetry update. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the