Well, That Wasn't Fun: October 16 '26

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io at 06 Nov, 00:00 UTC

October 16, 2026 began like any other day at Fly.io (meaning, we were anticipating only a medium amount of chaos). By that evening, we had patched and rebooted our entire fleet in response to a Linux kernel bug. The full rollout took 10 hours, but the emotional damage persists. CVE-2026-99999 The…