GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

Development Tim Anderson -
GitHub will charge $0.002 per minute for self-hosted runners (used for GitHub Actions) from March 1 2026 – a significant shift as these were...

Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
The Zig project is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, a non-profit Git hosting company based in Berlin, Germany, with Zig lead developer Andrew Kelley...

Microsoft Visual Studio shifts to annual releases, raising cost concerns

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Microsoft is accelerating Visual Studio's update cycle, moving from quarterly to monthly feature updates and introducing annual major releases each November (alongside .NET). Meanwhile,...

GitLab warms up investors for winter release of agentic AI flavoured Duo Workflow

AI/ML Joe Fay -
GitLab says it is on track to launch its agentic AI iteration of the Duo assistance technology this winter. CEO William Staples gave the update...

JetBrains previews official VS Code language server for Kotlin, unveils fresh language features at KotlinConf

Development Tim Anderson -
The annual JetBrains KotlinConf is in progress in Copenhagen, with news including the first official LSP (Language Server Protocol) extension for Visual Studio Code...

The hidden cost of dev stack diversity within an enterprise: ‘Engineering chaos’

Development Tim Anderson -
A survey of over 100 enterprises reported by DevOps startup Earthly showed that the top CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) issue is not speed but...

More React, more app-like: GitHub engineer outlines future UI for its DevOps platform

Development Tim Anderson -
A GitHub software engineer has described the past, present and future of UI (user interface) at GitHub, including increasing use of React and reference...

Tailwind CSS 4.0 released with ‘ground-up rewrite’ for faster Rust-powered build

Development Tim Anderson -
Tailwind CSS 4.0 is out, promising up to 5x faster build times, or 100x for incremental builds, as well as new CSS features and...

How should development environments be standardized? Coder report highlights wide variations

Development Tim Anderson -
A new survey of 550 enterprise developers shows there's a wide variation in the extent to which development environments are standardized or cloud-hosted, and...

GitHub Git downtime caused by bad configuration update

DevOps Tim Anderson -
GitHub, a critical service for millions of organizations, suffered 49 minutes or more of Git downtime on January 13th, following a faulty configuration change,...

GitHub debuts limited Copilot free tier in a crowded market

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
GitHub has introduced a free tier for its AI coding assistant, with options for Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI GPT-4o as the model....

Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with Perforce changes to open-source project

Development Tim Anderson -
A fork is in prospect for the well-known DevOps automation tool Puppet, following changes introduced by Perforce, which acquired it in 2022. "We're not forking...

ISO C++ Chair Herb Sutter leaves Microsoft, declares forthcoming C++ 26 ‘most impactful release since C++11’

Development Tim Anderson -
Herb Sutter, chair of the ISO C++ ISO C++ committee, has left Microsoft after 22 years, to become technical fellow at Citadel Securities, where...

Gitpod discontinues “journey of experiments, failures and dead-ends” with Kubernetes

Containers Tim Anderson -
Gitpod, which provides containerised development environments, has migrated its service away from Kubernetes in favour of a new home-grown platform called Flex, citing issues...

Kubernetes 1.31 now a ‘truly vendor-neutral platform’ thanks to removal of built-in cloud provider code

DevOps Tim Anderson -
The newly released Kubernetes 1.31 has completed the removal of in-tree cloud provider integrations in what team members described as the "largest migration in...

PyPi repository vulnerable to deleted package hijack, say researchers

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
Security researchers at JFrog report that the PyPi package repository is vulnerable to malware uploaded with the same name as a deleted package, causing...




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