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🎃 The ZAP Pumpkin Hunt 2026: up to 70% off your new server Halloween is here, and 24 pumpkins are hiding across ZAP-Hosting.com. Every pumpkin holds a voucher code for the first billing period of a new game server, VPS or TeamSpeak server. The hunt runs until Monday, 2 November, 10:00 CET.🎃 Pumpkin 50% common 🔥 Glowing Pumpkin 60% rare 👑 Golden Pumpkin 70% very rare, only 3 The discounts apply to game servers, VPS and TeamSpeak servers and music bots. The voucher page tells you what your code is for. How it works Browse our product pages on ZAP-Hosting.com and look out for the 🎃 in the text. Click the pumpkin. You will land on a page with your voucher code. Enter the code at checkout and save on the first billing period. Tips for the hunt The 50% pumpkins are easy to spot. For 60% and 70% you need to scroll further down. Some pages hide more than one pumpkin....

🔎🧟 7 Days to Die V3.4.0 is out: search and filters for backpack and containersLess digging, more surviving: find items in seconds.On 26 October 2026, The Fun Pimps released version 3.4.0 of 7 Days to Die as a stable update. The experimental phase ran from 23 October. It builds on the backpack system from V3.3.0: if you are digging through a full inventory in the middle of a horde, you now get some help.🔎 What is newSearch bar and filters: in your backpack and containers you can type an item name or filter by category. Recover lost drones: if your drone gets stuck or goes missing, you can ask a trader to recover it. Adjusted for the new inventory: Night Stalker Vol. 4, Steroids, Chicken Nuggets and the completed Fireman’s Almanac set were updated to match the changed backpack capacity.🔧 Fixes (according to the patch notes)In multiplayer, the “boosted” icon ...

🎃🕯️ Don't Starve Together: Hallowed Nights is back and "Cursed Confrontation Part 2" is hereTrick or treat in the Constant: two updates within a few days.Klei has updated Don't Starve Together twice this week: on 22 October 2026, "Cursed Confrontation Part 2" concluded the "From Beyond" story arc, and on 26 October the seasonal Hallowed Nights event arrived along with a hotfix.👻 Cursed Confrontation Part 2The Shadow quest line continues: new tasks after taking the Keystone to the Ancient Gateway. New creatures: early rare spawns such as Hound Batilisk and Rock Master with unique loot. New lore interactions: for example when reanimating the Odd Skeleton in the caves with the Possessed Atrium. Faster loading: travelling between the Forest and the Caves should be quicker. Available on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation; according to Klei, the Switch version follows after...

🏭🚀 Factorio 2.1 is stable: what changes for you and your serverMixed rockets, a landing pad unloading bay, split circuit inputs/outputs and ARM64 Linux: here is what the last major update brings – and what to check before you switch.On October 23, 2026, Wube Software marked Factorio 2.1 as stable after a long summer on the experimental branch. According to the official release API, the current stable version is 2.1.23, including the headless server. Wube announced 2.1 back in May as its “last major update”; afterwards the focus shifts to long-term support. 2.1 adds no new planets, enemies or research trees – it is about quality of life, small features and polish (Friday Facts #449).🚀 Space logisticsMixed rockets: A rocket can carry different items in one launch – including automated launches when it is filled manually or with inserters. Landing pad unloading bay: Insert...

🛡️ Critical PHP vulnerabilities: patched less than 30 minutes after the releaseWebsite and customer panel after 14 minutes, webspace servers after 27 minutes: how we responded to the PHP updates of 21 October.When vulnerabilities surface, response time matters! ⚡️ On 21 October 2026, the PHP project released security updates for two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Under certain conditions, they could let an attacker remotely run their own code on a web server that uses PHP. This is not a ZAP-Hosting issue: PHP powers a large part of the web, so the vulnerabilities affect websites and web servers across the entire hosting industry.🔎 What we knowType: remote code execution, meaning foreign code can be run on the server through a crafted request. Fixed in: PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12. No fix: PHP 8.1 and older no longer receive ...