Author: Christian Rakoot

Christian Rakoot, founder and author of Self Host Lab

Christian Rakoot is an industrial engineering and maintenance engineer who has been interested in computers since his first PC. It ran MS-DOS 3.22 on an Intel 286 with 4 MB of RAM, as best he remembers. Linux followed not long after, first Debian, then Mandrake.

He started programming in assembly, moved to Pascal and then Delphi, and later worked in C and the languages that came out of it. Small hardware kept his attention too, the Raspberry Pi in particular.

When fibre optic reached Madagascar more than fifteen years ago, hosting real services from home became worth doing. He has run mini PCs on Debian around the clock ever since, alongside Kimsufi servers for file storage and the applications that have no business sitting on a home connection. He prefers open source. None of his servers run Windows.

Uptime Kuma 2.5.4 Patches Critical JSONata Code Execution Flaw
Uptime Kuma 2.5.4 patches a critical-rated code execution flaw in the JSONata library (CVE-2026-77415, CVSS 9.3) plus a second denial-of-service…
September 14, 20264 min read
Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 Fix Critical Repository Template RCE
Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 patch a critical remote code execution vulnerability in repository templates, tracked as CVE-2026-89094 with a CVSS…
September 12, 20264 min read
Jellyfin 12.0 Is Out: What Breaks Before You Upgrade
Jellyfin 12.0 shipped on September 7, 2026, after months stuck in release candidate limbo. It’s the biggest Jellyfin release since…
September 8, 20264 min read
n8n Patches 18 Security Vulnerabilities in Bi-Weekly Update
Read this article in French: n8n corrige 18 failles de sécurité dans sa mise à jour bi-hebdomadaire n8n is one…
September 6, 20263 min read
Plex Urges Users to Update After Undisclosed Security Fixes in 1.43.3
Plex has pushed out Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0 to patch what the company describes only as…
September 5, 20264 min read
Home Assistant 2026.9 Adds Security Alerts and Removes the VLC Integration
Home Assistant 2026.9, “There’s room on this bus,” is now the stable release. The Security dashboard gains an Active alerts…
September 3, 20265 min read
Gitea v1.27.3 Ships 18 Security Hardening Fixes
Gitea v1.27.3 landed August 29, 2026 with an unusually long SECURITY section: 18 separate access-control hardening fixes, none carrying a…
September 1, 20265 min read
Paperless-ngx 3.1.0 Adds AI Workflow Actions and Document Versioning
Paperless-ngx 3.1.0 landed on August 27, 2026, adding a workflow action that applies AI-generated tag and correspondent suggestions automatically, per-document…
August 31, 20263 min read
BookStack Security Update Patches Critical RCE Flaw in v26.05.4
BookStack v26.05.4, released August 24, 2026, is a dedicated security update patching four vulnerabilities: a critical RCE (CVE-2026-82450) exploitable through…
August 31, 20263 min read
Open WebUI v0.11.1 Adds Human-in-the-Loop Tool Approval
Open WebUI v0.11.1 adds human-in-the-loop tool approval, letting you manually confirm certain tool calls before the AI runs them. The…
August 30, 20264 min read