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n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform for building multi-step automations linking apps, APIs, and AI agents, self-hosted or via n8n Cloud.
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n8n 2.41.6's Postgres node writes $1 values into SQL text via pg-promise 11.9.1, so Postgres never gets a bind parameter. A psql PREPARE dry-run tests a path the node never uses, and Postgres types inlined literals before any CASE guard runs.
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NVIDIA's RTX Spark PCs from Lenovo and Acer ship in October with up to 128GB of shared CPU/GPU memory, enough for a 4-bit 70B model. Long-context agents now fit on owned hardware, though a cost comparison with cloud inference waits on system prices.
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One team running a GPT-5.4 agent in n8n traced its production 'laziness' to three workflow bugs, the first a retry cap cut from 6 to 2. Fixing the loop restored quality on the same model, so traces and stop reasons should be checked before any model swap.
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n8n has put Agents into preview on n8n Cloud, letting a model choose its own steps from four kinds of tools, existing workflows among them. Teams can hand triage and inbox review to an agent and keep repeatable actions in the workflows it calls.
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Shopify removes the subscription from a webhook whose destination is failing, and it emails the owner only when an App Store or custom app created the webhook. A merchant who builds one by hand in the admin has to watch the receiver themselves.
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European agentic-AI startups have raised 7.9bn euros this year, already more than last year's 7bn, according to Sifted data. The founders who explain how customers deploy agents each sell one layer of the stack and disagree about which one has to come first.
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GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4 lets guest code hand the C++ bindings one type on the first read and a different one on the second. Fixes are in 7.0.1 and 6.2.0.
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Make bills a credit for every module a scenario executes and n8n bills once per run, so a 20-step pipeline costs 20 units on Make and one on n8n. For short flows the two prices converge, and the choice turns on who maintains the flows and where the data may live.
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An open-source AgentCore node moves memory, sandboxed execution and tool access into a managed harness. The install is the easy part; the access decisions do not move.
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n8n went from $2.5bn to $5.2bn in seven months and SAP is embedding its canvas in Joule Studio, while the single number offered for agent failure, an 88% security incident rate, arrives without a population or a definition.
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A dev.to walkthrough of the n8n 1.x to 2.0 upgrade treats it as a host-configuration review, because the defaults that changed decide what Code nodes may read and which nodes exist at all.
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A five-person team swapped eleven paid subscriptions for self-hosted open source and came out close to level, because the cost that mattered was the maintainer's own hours.
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SAP is folding n8n's visual canvas into Joule Studio so multi-agent flows run on an SAP-hosted runtime with SAP's own governance and observability, and general availability is anticipated in Q3 2026.
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Adding background: true to a You.com research request returns a task_id the client polls at GET /v1/research/{task_id}. The Quickstart lists frontier as an effort level that will only run that way.
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Compose has carried a restart flag on depends_on since 2023. A read-only pass over 38 running containers on eight servers found seven declared dependencies, all of them waiting on health and all of them recording restart as false.
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A dev.to migration guide rests the case for LangGraph on durable state, pause/resume approvals and testable branches, and it tells you to leave the CRM, the property database and the external APIs exactly where they are.
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Lars Winstand traced 429s, doubled tool calls and inconsistent output in an n8n agent flow to a burst of simultaneous executions, and fixed it by capping production concurrency at 20 in the orchestrator.
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Ussama Assad, who builds and repairs n8n lead pipelines, says almost nobody has specified what a filter or a budget check does when it throws. The answer you get for free is that the run keeps going and the paid step keeps spending.
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The journal chains each record's hash into the next, so a one-line edit to a refusal surfaced as a numbered record; anyone able to rerun the writer can still recompute the chain and pass the check.
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Seven small businesses share one self-hosted WAHA container. Three of their lines failed in nine days while the process stayed responsive, and the watcher written to catch the next one did not run from cron for five days.
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