Latest Cloud & DevOps News: Serverless DB, Free GitHub Core, nginx Auth Delay, and More

Tencent Cloud has launched China's first serverless database, PostgreSQL for Serverless, which is fully compatible with PostgreSQL syntax and features, offering high availability, performance, and security while charging based on resource response units and storage capacity. The product is now in public beta and can be created via cloud API.

GitHub announced that all core features are now completely free for every user, removing collaborator limits on private repositories and allowing teams to manage code, CI/CD, project planning, code review, and packages in a single place.

The nginx 1.17.10 mainline version has been released, introducing a new "auth_delay" directive. This directive, defined in the ngx_http_core_module, can be used as follows:

<code>syntax: auth_delay time;
default: auth_delay 0s;
context: http, server, location</code>

It delays handling unauthorized requests via a 401 response to mitigate timing attacks caused by password, sub‑request results, or JWT.

An 80‑year‑old COBOL programmer in New Jersey was urgently recruited to fix the state's long‑standing unemployment insurance system, highlighting the scarcity of developers skilled in the legacy language.

Git celebrated its 15th anniversary, with maintainer Junio C. Hamano thanking contributors, documentation writers, and legal experts who support the project's growth.

Authorities arrested the developer of the cracked Baidu Netdisk client Pandownload after it was found to bypass official speed limits and expose users' private data.

Linux is set to become available on iPhone through a dual‑boot solution, with developers Raffaele and mcg29 publishing detailed instructions on GitHub for booting 64‑bit iOS devices into Linux.