Scout Briefs Saturday, Oct 24, 2026

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News that touches Donut Pursuit, your Workers stack, chess and money.
Sep 1
Cloudflare D1Check Donut Pursuit DB

Free-tier daily row read and write limits enforced. Queries fail past the limit until midnight UTC. Undelete works only within 7 days.

D1 changelog
Oct 12
Cloudflare WorkersImproved

Grace period for in-flight requests during runtime updates went from 30 seconds to 20 minutes.

Workers changelog
Oct 15
Godot 4.8Beta

Beta 1 is in feature freeze and can set up the Android and Java SDKs in one click.

Godot
Oct 27, 10 AM PT
Chess.comUpcoming

Clutch Chess Showdown starts. Wesley So won his fourth U.S. Championship.

Chess.com
Next week
Fed meetingWatch

Markets expect a hold, per Realtor.com, which also puts a December hike near 90%. That could push variable card APRs up.

Realtor.com

30-year mortgage rate

Fell to 7.32% from 7.40%. Axis starts at 7.2%.
7.2% 7.3% 7.4% 7.5% Previous reading Latest (Oct 22) 7.40% 7.32%
Realtor.com

Study

Nothing new on CLEP. Registration is still $97 plus the test center fee.

CLEP registration

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