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Oct 10, 2026, 8:26 PM EDT
Deno Joins Cloudflare: Runtime Support Ends After a Year, Deploy Shuts Down After Six Months
The Deno team is moving to Cloudflare to improve self-hosted Workers and Durable Objects. Existing runtime and hosting users face separate support deadlines while the combined platform remains a development plan.
Oct 10, 2026, 3:21 PM EDT
Qwen Code v0.25.1-preview.2 Caps Foreground Subagents per Model and Lands the H4-H6 Managed-Agent Contracts
Qwen Code v0.25.1-preview.2 enforces the per-model concurrency cap on foreground subagents, defers agent and goal declarations by default, and lands H4 child-agent, H5 channel and H6 automation record contracts plus a cross-node EventTransport design.
Oct 10, 2026, 2:27 AM EDT
Google Data Agent Kit Goes GA: Free MCP Tools Wire 15+ Data Cloud Services Into Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
Google made Data Agent Kit generally available on October 9, 2026: a free collection of MCP tools and Google-authored agent skills connecting more than 15 Google Data Cloud services to VS Code, Antigravity, Cursor, Claude Code and Codex for schema inspection, query authoring and end-to-end pipelines.

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Hero illustration for Qwen Code v0.25.1-preview.0 showing the experimental preview label, three independent headline feature blocks (Kubernetes CSI runtime, M5b local outcomes, Stage H5 channel contracts and persistence) presented as side-by-side rectangles with no connecting arrows, and a stage roadmap row marking H3 and H5 as shipped, H4 and H6 as design only, and the cross-node EventTransport as design only.

October 7, 2026

Qwen Code v0.25.1-preview.0 Adds Experimental Kubernetes CSI Runtime, M5b Durable Local Outcomes, and Stage H4-H6 Designs

The Qwen Code 0.25.1-preview.0 pre-release ships an experimental Kubernetes CSI runtime with durable worker ACK, M5b durable local Runtime tool outcomes, Stage H5 channel contracts, and the W2 session-directory change; Stage H4/H5/H6 slice designs and the cross-node EventTransport are documentation only.

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