If you have friends in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore or Thailand, after September 30 they may run into something new: tap install in some app store, get a prompt saying the developer isn’t verified, and it won’t install. At the same moment, the China-market Android phone in your hand installs anything with no change at all.
On October 6, JetBrains’ Amper blog published its final post, titled Amper Is Now the Kotlin Toolchain. The name carries a line underneath, Moving to the Kotlin Blog, and it means what it says: that blog stops updating as of that day and merges into the Kotlin blog.
On October 5 JetBrains published a short announcement with a blunt title: IDE support for the Swift language is ending in the KMP plugin. The effective versions are specific: IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2 | 2026.2.2.
You ask the agent to add a date picker. It installs a calendar library, writes a wrapper component, adds a stylesheet, and then starts discussing time zones with you.
It is two in the morning, the machine has started swapping, you have hit later on the update prompt three times, and you still will not reboot.
If you write Kotlin Multiplatform you have probably hit this: the line is red in the IDE, underlined with a cannot find symbol, you hesitate for ages and do not dare commit, then you build and it is green, and it even runs correctly.
I have three agents installed in my terminal right now: claude, opencode, gemini. A few days in and I hit a new annoyance. Once there are several sessions, I have no idea who is running, who changed which files, or who spent how much. I end up scrolling through terminal history to figure it out.
On the morning of September 30, DeepSeek announced on its official WeChat account that it is open-sourcing infrastructure components for Huawei’s Ascend compute platform: a TileLang high-level language compiler tool, a high-performance compute library, and a distributed communication library. Their wording was that these correspond one-to-one with the components previously open-sourced for NVIDIA’s platform.
First reaction: “oh, finally.”
Same JSON, same app, same run.
On September 28 DeepSeek Harness shipped v0.2.0-rc.1. Two items in the release notes concern plugins: an improved plugin management UI and install guidance, and a creation mode with fleshed-out plugin development instructions plus an experience skill.
On the night of September 28, the DeepSeek Harness plugin list gained three entries at once: crypto-ticker, a crypto price card in the lower left of the sidebar; busy-workspace, which pins workspaces with running sessions to the top of the list; and router-laya, which picks a thinking level for each message automatically.