October 2026: What I've Been Working On
A more dramatic feeling month with security events and Reddit drama.
BookStack
For much of the month I had been working towards the next feature release, which mainly focuses on back-end framework & PHP version upgrades.
Later a flurry of security reports meant focusing on a security release. This was then followed by the critical PHP security releases which was interesting to deal with, due to the potential severity while not being under my own control like normal BookStack releases. I just focused on doing what I could from an advisory & guidance point of view.
Later I finished up the month with a video guiding on how BookStack can be used with personal AI systems.
danb/rss
Some minor updates just to update packages and address the PHP security issue.
Blog Posts
A variety of blog posts this month. The latest addressing the drama I got thrown into, with coverage from major tech news sites, leading me to give up on moderating /r/opensource: