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npm automation can now prepare a release without being able to publish it directly. That small permission change matters because it separates build automation from the final act of putting a package on the public registry.
GitHub Actions users who rely on `ubuntu-latest` have a concrete migration window ahead: the label will move to Ubuntu 26.04 between October 19 and November 19, 2026, which can expose hidden dependencies on preinstalled tools and versions.
GitHub is moving a risky GitHub Actions trigger from an easy-to-misconfigure workflow choice toward an explicit policy decision. The change is important for open-source maintainers, especially repositories that process fork pull requests.
As coding agents gain the ability to deploy production software, the important security primitive is no longer a broad account token. It is a permission boundary around the specific workload being changed.
