This week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon Linux 2027 enters public preview with kernel 7.1+, SELinux enforcing by default, DNF5, newer language runtimes, AWS-LC, and an x86-64-v3 baseline. GitHub Actions adds explicit cache permissions to reduce cache-poisoning risk. GitHub can now block pull requests from merging when they introduce exposed secrets. And N-able N-central has a critical pre-auth RCE that Huntress says is being actively exploited in the wild.

The bigger theme this week is catching problems before they turn into incidents. Amazon Linux 2027 gives teams time to test AMIs, bootstrap scripts, agents, Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD before the next platform generation becomes production reality. GitHub’s new cache controls make workflow trust boundaries explicit instead of leaving them implied. And secret-scannin ...