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PostgreSQL News

pgbadger v13.3 has been released

Antananarivo, Madagascar - November 03, 2026 pgBadger pgBadger is a PostgreSQL performance analyzer, built for speed with fully detailed reports based on your PostgreSQL log files. pgBadger 13.3 was released today, this is a maintenance release that fixes issues and applied patches reported by users since last release. Add scroll on legend and mouseover graphs when the list of item is > 10. Fix several issues when the --explode option is used. Add filter of remote logs in watch mode on the remot

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PlanetScale Blog

The hidden latency inside your database

Network-attached storage is a fine choice and a bad default. Application performance 101 says you want to move your application as close as possible to your database. The shorter that distance across the network, the faster reads and writes move between them. But did you know there is network latency inside your database cluster? Most commonly, cloud-hosted databases have network-attached storage: a disk on a separate server, connected over the network, with impressively small, but still measur

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Cloudflare Changelog

Agents - Agents SDK now supports Pi 1.5 with fewer storage writes and lower memory use

Agents SDK v0.33.0 upgrades PiHarness to Pi 1.5 ↗︎. The release reduces storage transactions while streaming, improves throughput across many sessions, and reduces memory use when streaming large tool calls. Performance improvements Far fewer storage writes while streaming. Pi stores streamed answers and tool output in batches, within a second of each update, instead of on every update. Over SQLite, this cuts storage transactions by about 27x for long answers and 5.7x for turns with parallel t

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Cloudflare Changelog

Browser Run - Crawl results include URL outcomes and robots.txt diagnostics

Browser Run /crawl results now include more detailed diagnostics. Each URL record can include an outcome that identifies the specific processing result, such as success, robots_disallowed, timeout, or page_error. The job-level robots array reports the robots.txt state for up to 50 origins encountered by the crawl. Each entry includes the origin, whether usable rules were available, and the HTTP status when the crawler received a response. { "robots": [ { "origin": "https://example.com",

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Cloudflare Changelog

R2 - Request metrics breakdown by region and HTTP error code

You can now compare regional activity and errors by HTTP status code on the Metrics page for a R2 bucket in the Cloudflare dashboard. Bucket metrics ↗ Compare regions Use Request Distribution by Region to compare request activity and filter by writes, reads, errors, or rate-limited errors (429). Inspect errors Use Errors by Status Code to compare error counts and trends. To troubleshoot errors, refer to the R2 error code reference.

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Cloudflare Changelog

WAF - WAF Release - 2026-11-03

This release introduces updates to the underlying rule expressions for PHP out-of-memory (OOM) vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 and CVE-2026-115560. The improvements are iterative changes based on reports from Security Researchers as part of PHP Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge ↗︎. RulesetRule IDLegacy Rule IDDescriptionPrevious ActionNew ActionComments Cloudflare Free Ruleset...bcd95984N/APHP Remote Code Execution Attack (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) #2BlockBlockRule dete

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