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PCL2 Killed Its Minecraft Downloader. Here Is What It Means
On October 20, PCL and HMCL both shut down Minecraft downloads in mainland China. The confirmed timeline, the official wording, the rumor, and what it signals.

Astro 7.4.2 turns a 60-second content sync into under a second by counting bytes differently
On a 44k-entry store, the chunking step drops from about 60 seconds to well under one second with byte-identical output. The fix is not a faster algorithm, but a different way to know how wide a character is.

Bun 1.4.4 ships a formatter: 59 milliseconds on Prettier's own repo, 286x faster
bun fmt reads your existing Prettier config and plugins, running 59.7 ms against 17.1 s on Prettier's own repository, 48 MB against 459 MB. What matters is how it proves identical output: byte comparison plus a semantic re-parse check.

The one fix that matters in Deno 2.9.8: it stops trusting the compromised eMudhra root
This patch release has 13 fixes, half of them permission and sandbox edges, half Node-compatibility semantics. The eMudhra distrust lines up with what uv and CPython did the same week.
