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What changed: On 10 November, MCP's maintainers published an experimental extension for file uploads and downloads. The server asks for the file, the client uploads it directly, and the tool call runs again. They expect it to be stable "before the end of the year". On 11 November they set a six-month spec cycle and targeted the next version for 30 March 2027. Luca Chang joins as a release manager.
What changed: On 10 November, Railway published its postmortem of an attack that ran from 20 to 21 October. Railway says the attacker decrypted customer variables for at most 1.85% of workspaces, about 100,000. The attacker also decrypted GitHub OAuth tokens and AI provider keys for 1,852 users. Railway puts unauthorized spend on stolen keys at "$740,000". Its forensics found no sign that anyone accessed customer databases.
What changed: On 9 November, Meta released Muse Ember at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output. It has a 1-million-token context. Meta built it for "the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction". Simon Willison notes that Claude Fable 5.2, released the same week at $8 and $40, is "80x that price".
What changed: OpenAI's deprecations page sets 11 December 2026 as the shutdown date for gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, o3, gpt-5-pro and o3-pro. OpenAI announced it on 11 June. The dated snapshots of gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1 and gpt-4.1-mini follow on 14 January 2027. OpenAI's suggested replacements are gpt-6.1-sol, gpt-6.1-terra and gpt-6-luna.
What changed: GitHub's status history lists seven incidents from 9 to 11 November. They hit Actions, the Checks API, webhooks, Git operations, pull requests, Pages and Copilot. GitHub marks all seven resolved, and the page lists four more on 12 and 13 November.
What changed: Fireworks AI, one of Notion's AI vendors, had a security incident. Notion says it exposed Notion AI chat transcripts for fewer than 1% of workspaces. Notion stopped sending data to Fireworks on 3 November.