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Copilot Decides for You on 22 October
From 22 October GitHub applies a default policy to every unconfigured Copilot feature, including MCP servers. Enabled is a standing grant for future features.
Only Google Reads Your Schema Correctly
Google now applies one pass of HTML unescaping to JSON-LD. The standard says zero. Only 0.34% of sites broke, but 6.70% publish markup only Google reads.
The GitHub Actions API Now Stops Counting At 2,500
Two GitHub Actions API changes shipped a day apart: workflow-run counts now cap at 2,500+, and expired artifacts no longer appear in the REST API.
Forum Schema Only Counts If Your Users Wrote It
DiscussionForumPosting, ProfilePage and QAPage all gate on authorship, not formatting. What qualifies on a product site, and what quietly does not.
npm Retired The Audit Endpoints Your Tooling Still Calls
npm's legacy audit endpoints now return 410. What the bulk advisories endpoint changes for pnpm, Yarn and your CI, and the config you must rewrite.
Search Console's Multimodal Split, Explained
Google split the Web search type into Text-based and Multimodal on 24 September 2026. No new traffic appeared. Here is what the split can and cannot tell you.
Baseline 2026 Is Not Safe to Ship
Baseline 2026 means every core browser shipped the feature this year, not that your users have it. Widely available is 30 months later. Target that.
826 Schema Types, About 30 Google Features
Schema.org 30.1 shipped on 16 September 2026. None of the new vocabulary appears in Google's documented search features, and Google says to read its docs.
Web Bot Auth: Crawlers That Sign Their Requests
Cloudflare, Google and AWS now verify crawlers by Ed25519 signature. Google does not sign every request, so a missing signature proves nothing at all.
Bun 1.4 Absorbed Your Dependencies. Read the Stability Labels
Bun 1.4 ships image processing, a headless browser and a Markdown parser in the runtime. The stability labels decide which ones you can rely on.
Google Added creator to VideoObject. It Is Not a Ranking Lever
Google added the creator property to VideoObject on 24 September 2026. It is recommended, not required, and the watch page still gates video indexing.
Next.js 15 Stops Getting Patches on October 21
Next.js 15 reaches end of life on 21 October 2026. The support policy grants two years from release, not two years of maintenance. What to do now.
Scaled Content Abuse: What Google Actually Enforces
Three spam updates in 2026 and no core update since May. What Google's scaled content abuse policy actually says about directories and templates.
pnpm 12.4 Now Installs Your Python and Rust Deps
pnpm 12.4 resolves PyPI and crates.io dependencies alongside npm and adds a cached task runner. What shipped, and why to keep it off production.
Chrome Removes XSLT: Your Styled Feed Goes Blank
Chrome 158 disables XSLT on 17 November 2026, so styled RSS feeds and sitemaps render as raw XML. What breaks, what does not, and how to fix it.
Next.js 16 Deleted Implicit Caching. Now You Ask.
Next.js 16 swaps dynamicIO and useCache for cacheComponents, breaks single-argument revalidateTag, renames middleware to proxy and changes five image defaults.
Google Will License EU Search Data. Not to You.
Google now licenses EEA ranking, query and click data under the DMA. Eligibility needs 50,000 monthly EU users, two years trading and an independent audit.
Node Goes Annual. October Is When It Bites.
Node drops the odd/even model: one major a year, every release LTS. Node 26 becomes LTS on 28 October 2026, eight days after Node 24 leaves active support.
Review Stars on Software Listings: Upvotes Aren't Ratings
Google's July 2026 guideline bans fake and undisclosed incentivised reviews. What SoftwareApplication stars require, and why upvotes can't be ratings.
Google's Favicon Format List Has No SVG. Check Your Starter Template.
Google now lists seven supported favicon formats and SVG isn't one. Why SVG-only Vite and Next.js icons are exposed, and the short fix for search results.
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