Jared

The attackers were able to redirect update traffic to malicious servers for a regrettable length of time.

What's a dev to do?

Quote, I deeply apologize to all users affected by this hijacking.

I recommend downloading version 8.9.1, which includes the relevant security enhancement and running the installer to update your Notepad++ manually.

With these changes and reinforcements, I believe the situation has been resolved.

Fingers crossed.

End quote.

Notepad++ is, in my elderly opinion, one of the coolest pieces of software on the entire internet.

What a shame.

This is why we can't have nice things.

hypergrowth isn't always easy.

Tailscale's Avery Penneron penned a system downtime apology so good, I'm sharing it here for you to enjoy and perhaps to emulate.

Quote, "'It's true that many of our outages "'don't sever existing connections.

"'That's a deliberate part of the design.

"'But if you happen to need the control plane "'during those minutes, you feel the outage at full force.

"'That's not acceptable.

"'Tailscale is critical infrastructure "'for a lot of organizations, "'and we have to earn that trust "'by making these incidents rarer and shorter.'"

So what are we going to do about it?

Well, a few things, end quote.

After sharing four concrete steps the Tailscale team is taking to mitigate future problems, Avery says, quote, I'm not going to lie to you.