Edition of Saturday 24 October 2026

envoyproxy/envoy v1.39.5

  • Programming & dev tools
  • Security
  • Infrastructure & DevOps
  • Release

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Envoy v1.39.5 ships fixes for an upstream compromise of several eMudhra intermediate CA private keys, removing trust in those CAs from the Docker images, the webpki-roots and rustls-webpki crates used by Hickory DNS, and two roots (AAA Certificate Services, emSign ECC Root CA - G3) from Envoy Mobile's built-in bundle.…

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Score

0.56total under rubric v2.0

Judges’ mean answer per question, on a scale from 0 to 1. Questions marked minus count against the score.
  • Significance0.51
  • Reader interest0.49
  • Audience breadth0.47
  • Practical relevance0.73
  • Substantiated0.63
  • Technical depth0.52
  • New information0.81
  • Counts against: Promotional0.04
  • Counts against: Overclaim0.10

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

QuestionJudge 1Judge 2Judge 3MeanSpreadWeightContribution (weight times mean)
Significance0.670.35—0.510.32+0.25+0.127
Reader interest0.590.40—0.490.19+0.20+0.099
Audience breadth0.540.40—0.470.14+0.10+0.047
Practical relevance0.870.60—0.730.27+0.15+0.110
Substantiated0.750.50—0.630.25+0.10+0.063
Technical depth0.680.35—0.520.33+0.10+0.052
New information0.930.70—0.810.23+0.10+0.082
Promotional0.050.03—0.040.02−0.15−0.006
Overclaim0.090.10—0.100.01−0.15−0.014
Sum of contributions+0.559
Claim-check penalty0.000
Total, as published0.558

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested. Judge 3 did not score this story; its mean uses the other two.

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