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GitHub Changelog

Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration

The Ubuntu 26.04 runner image for GitHub Actions is now out of public preview and fully supported for production workflows on both x64 and arm64. As part of this release,… The post Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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AWS Database Blog

Implement a correctness-safe Bloom filter lookup with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

This post shows how to compose a Bloom filter with an exact-match cache and a relational source of truth into a three-tier, correctness-safe membership lookup using Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, serving sub-millisecond decisions at peak throughput without false-positive risk.

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Google Cloud Blog

How a solo founder runs a five-continent tender platform on AlloyDB and MCP

Editor's note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic search to a ScaNN index and managing database operations through Model Context Protocol (MCP), query latency dropped by 47x while automating day-to-day administrative tasks via MCP. Executive summary Lucius AI runs a global tender platform spanning more than 210,000 tenders across the UK, EU, India,

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HashiCorp Blog

HCP Vagrant deprecation: important dates and migration guidance

HashiCorp is deprecating HCP Vagrant through a phased process.  The Vagrant CLI and source repository will remain available, but customers must move their Vagrant boxes to another hosting provider and assume the associated hosting costs.   HCP Vagrant will stop supporting new box and registry creation on October 1, 2026, and customers using HCP Vagrant have until December 31, 2026 to find a new provider and rehost their boxes.  To help with the transition, we will release additional capabilities

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