HumHub
HumHub 1.19 has left beta, and its first patches are already carrying security fixes.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Interact and Memos — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Interact opens its intranet to outside AI assistants and uses Claude to attack its own platform.
Interact's October feed is led by Interact MCP, which brings the intranet into AI assistants people already use, with read and write access under each person's permissions. Its security team joined Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program and is testing its own platform with Claude Mythos 5.1, and Cyber Essentials certification now covers Interact and Sideways 6. The rest of the month is buyer guides, award news and thought leadership.
Memos adopts calendar versions and rebuilds writing around one block editor.
Memos has moved to calendar versioning, with 26.10 candidates following 0.31 and versions now written YY.MM.N. 26.10.0-rc.2 replaces the editor with one block editor shared by writing and reading, and turns the instance-wide memo length and upload caps into ordered per-user usage limits that also cover memo count and total storage. rc.1 added editor suggestions and transcription of existing audio attachments, and Spaces now follow the user across Timeline, Calendar, Map and Attachments.
Interact's October feed is led by Interact MCP, which brings the intranet into AI assistants people already use, with read and write access under each person's permissions. Its security team joined Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program and is testing its own platform with Claude Mythos 5.1, and Cyber Essentials certification now covers Interact and Sideways 6. The rest of the month is buyer guides, award news and thought leadership.
The Spring Action Agent work put agents inside the intranet; MCP moves the intranet out to wherever employees already work. That raises the stakes on trust, which is why the security items matter more than they would alone: a system holding company knowledge is being opened to more clients. The company's content messaging now describes the intranet as adaptive.
Expect Conductor and MCP connections to reach more business systems, following the Workday pattern from the Spring Launch. Further security attestations are also likely as AI access expands.
Memos has moved to calendar versioning, with 26.10 candidates following 0.31 and versions now written YY.MM.N. 26.10.0-rc.2 replaces the editor with one block editor shared by writing and reading, and turns the instance-wide memo length and upload caps into ordered per-user usage limits that also cover memo count and total storage. rc.1 added editor suggestions and transcription of existing audio attachments, and Spaces now follow the user across Timeline, Calendar, Map and Attachments.
Spaces made Memos multi-user, and usage limits are what an administrator needs once several people share an instance. The candidate keeps spending compatibility to get there: upgrading signs everyone out because access tokens are bound to the password, and the old size settings are removed without migration, leaving defaults of 8 KiB per memo and 32 MiB per file. The HTTP layer also moved to the Go standard library, with operators asked to report reverse-proxy differences.
Expect 26.10.0 stable with those upgrade notes intact. Reverse-proxy reports against the new HTTP layer are the likeliest cause of another candidate.
Other Collab products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Interact or Memos.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Interact and Memos are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Interact and Memos are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
Top Interact alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Interact alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/interact for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top Memos alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Memos alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/memos for the full list with editorial commentary on each.