On Call Brief

Your weekly SRE/DevOps briefing. Security patches, postmortems, releases, and community reads — curated for the on-call engineer.

Each brief is dated by its editorial week (not the companion podcast release schedule); when inbox or RSS ingest lags affected sourcing, we say so in the draft.

Latest: On Call Brief – Week of October 18–24, 2026

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On Call Brief – Week of October 18–24, 2026

2026-10-18 — 2026-10-24

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Past Briefs

2026-10-18 — 2026-10-24

On Call Brief – Week of October 18–24, 2026

Draft updated 14 hours ago (Oct 21, 2026 3:51 am EDT)

Deep Dive Release Security / Patch Status Page
2026-10-11 — 2026-10-17

On Call Brief – Week of October 11–17, 2026

Published 4 days ago (Oct 18, 2026 3:46 am EDT)

Deep Dive Security / Patch Status Page
2026-10-04 — 2026-10-10

On Call Brief – Week of October 4–10, 2026

Published 2 weeks ago (Oct 11, 2026 3:46 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Security / Patch
2026-09-27 — 2026-10-03

On Call Brief – Week of September 27 – October 3, 2026

Published 3 weeks ago (Oct 4, 2026 3:46 am EDT)

Deep Dive Security / Patch
2026-09-20 — 2026-09-26

On Call Brief – Week of September 20–26, 2026

Published 4 weeks ago (Sep 27, 2026 3:46 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Security / Patch
2026-09-13 — 2026-09-19

On Call Brief – Week of September 13–19, 2026

Published 1 month ago (Sep 20, 2026 3:46 am EDT)

Breaking Change Community Deep Dive Security / Patch
2026-09-06 — 2026-09-12

On Call Brief – Week of September 6–12, 2026

Published 1 month ago (Sep 13, 2026 3:46 am EDT)

Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-08-30 — 2026-09-05

On Call Brief – Week of August 30 – September 5, 2026

Published 2 months ago (Sep 6, 2026 3:46 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Security / Patch
2026-08-23 — 2026-08-29

On Call Brief – Week of August 23–29, 2026

Published 2 months ago (Aug 30, 2026 5:27 pm EDT)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-08-16 — 2026-08-22

On Call Brief – Week of August 16–22, 2026

Published 2 months ago (Aug 23, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-08-09 — 2026-08-15

On Call Brief – Week of August 9–15, 2026

Published 2 months ago (Aug 16, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Security / Patch
2026-08-02 — 2026-08-08

On Call Brief – Week of August 2–8, 2026

Published 2 months ago (Aug 9, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Breaking Change Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch