This Week in Open Source: September 28, 2026
Starlette ships built-in OpenTelemetry tracing, PyMongo patches three CVEs, Prisma 8's release candidate carries real breaking changes, and a Rails issue exposes a hidden memory cost on every 404.
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This Week in Open Source: September 21, 2026
OAuth/OIDC hardening continues across Symfony, Doorkeeper, and MCP SDKs for a second week running, plus Predis's official CVE release, Mongoid's security patches disguised as a routine bump, and a queued breaking change in openai-python.
This Week in Open Source: September 15, 2026
Security patches from Predis, Express, and Doorkeeper, plus new Anthropic and OpenAI SDK releases and real OpenTelemetry tracing landing in MongoDB's Python driver.
This Week in Open Source: August 28, 2026
NestJS v12 ships native observability via @nestjs/observe, Oban unifies config, Phoenix switches JSON libraries, and Symfony patches three branches.
This Week in Open Source: August 16, 2026
Rails batches schema reads, node-mysql2 lands 3-6x perf wins, OpenAI Python SDK hits v3.0.0, and Starlette proposes native OTel tracing.
What's New in Scout: July 2026
Create GitHub or Linear issues directly from Scout, Node.js gets complete logs and error monitoring, and Anomaly Detection adds direction filtering to cut alert noise.
What's New in Scout Monitoring: June 2026
Node.js is live, anomaly detection matured with new controls and API access, MCP server got historical insights and 30-day metrics, and Discord alerts are here.
May Newsletter
Anomaly detection in beta, bundled pricing, DigitalOcean and AWS Marketplace, MCP server updates, and Node.js agent coming soon. A lot shipped in May.
April Newsletter
Agent releases across Ruby, Python, Elixir, CLI, and MCP. BackerKit on switching from Datadog. Scout on AWS Marketplace. Blue Ridge Ruby and PHPverse. And something in the works we think you will like.
March Newsletter
Elixir agent 2.0 adds error monitoring and log management, the Scout CLI is now available via Homebrew, and new public API endpoints and MCP server updates ship this month.
February Newsletter
A quick look at what we've been up to for the past few months, including support for Ruby 4, improved Python support for errors, and strengthened reliability enhancements product-wide.
October Newsletter
News from the Scout team. Introducing Scout's MCP Server for AI-native monitoring.
August Newsletter
News from the Scout team. Error Monitoring is in Beta. Chaskiq customer spotlight. Fun stuff we've scouted.
May Newsletter
News from the Scout team. Error Monitoring waitlist is accepting signups. Customer spotlight on Zagaran. News we've scouted lately.