August 2026

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This Week in Package Management: 29 August 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer

A rare opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-paced, high-visibility role.

Bazel Module Versions Aren't SemVer

According to strict SemVer, protobuf's latest Bazel release is from 2022.

Hardening the Override Flag

export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1

This Week in Package Management: 22 August 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

Issues in the Repo

refs/bugs, refs/notes, refs/heads/ticgit, or a directory full of YAML.

Two-Factor Authentication Across Package Registries

Something you have, something you know, and someone else's OAuth.

This Week in Package Management: 15 August 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

How This Blog Is Built

A full walkthrough of the custom static site generator, content pipeline, and edge deployment behind nesbitt.io.

Supplier Security Questionnaire

Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes.

Shared Code Between Package Managers

Which package-management libraries twenty package managers reuse from each other.

This Week in Package Management: 8 August 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

The Software Stewardship Lab

A new applied research lab for open source sustainability, launching today

A year of AI disclosure in critical packages

Assisted-By: Daniel Stenberg

brew install actions/checkout

Using Homebrew's tap machinery as a curated distribution layer for GitHub Actions.

This Week in Package Management: 1 August 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world