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Google’s Gemini CLI 0.60 stable release tightens several places where a coding agent meets the host: extension-driven environment changes now require consent, runtime-altering variables are sanitized, sandbox state is isolated more aggressively, path checks are hardened and MCP OAuth validates the authorization-server issuer.
The scanner itself is not the new part. The September 16 change removes the CodeQL-default-setup gate that GitHub’s July rollout originally required, making AI-assisted vulnerability detection easier to add to repositories with different code-scanning configurations.
The practical shift is that Python edge applications no longer need a separate JavaScript Worker just to use Hyperdrive. The integration is still beta, requires a recent compatibility date, and depends on TCP-compatible Python database drivers.
The deadline is no longer theoretical: browsers, Git HTTPS backends and API clients that still depend on SHA-1-era TLS algorithms can now lose connectivity to GitHub.com.
This is an identity-system failure rather than an application bug: a vulnerable Keycloak deployment can let an attacker turn the legitimate “forgot password” flow into full account takeover without credentials or victim interaction. Upgrade is the proper fix; disabling Forgot Password in every realm is Red Hat’s temporary mitigation.
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