**Related issue:** NA

Adds Fleet's November 2026 newsletter
(`articles/newsletter-2026-11.md`), which covers October 2026. It
publishes at `fleetdm.com/newsletters/newsletter-2026-11`.

- **Email subject line:** `Fleet news: November 2026`
- **Category:** `newsletter`, singular, which the website build accepts
(#52120). No website changes are needed.
- **Author:** Aube Paul (`robinedev`), matching the September and
October issues.

## Open questions for reviewers

- **New "📺 Fleet Virtual Summit" section** for the November 10 LinkedIn
Live event, placed before workshops. Keep it or fold it into the
workshops section. If it stays, it's a new entry in the newsletter's
section emoji table.
- **The roadmap preview is linked even though November isn't a quarter's
first month.** The October preview published October 13, after the
October issue went out, so readers haven't seen it in the newsletter
yet.
- **Article and guide picks are editorial**, not based on traffic
numbers. Reorder them if you have analytics. There were no case studies
in October.
- **The community section has one post, and it's personal.** Henry
Stamerjohann's MacSysAdmin talk. Fleet's company-page post about the
"Apple in the enterprise" research is another option, but it repeats the
research article in "Worth reading." No engagement numbers were
available.
- **Community contributors with five or more merged PRs in October:**
Prajwal Janbandhu (8, in the thank-you line), Michael Alt (6,
highlighted), Dhvanit (6, returning, not named), and Shreyash Agare (5,
returning, not named). Confirm none of them is a contractor whose
account isn't in the org.
- **Several first-time contributors only edited the handbook.** None
appear in Fleet's Slack, so they stay in the thank-you line.

## How each section was sourced

- **Shipped:** the Fleet 4.93.0 and 4.94.0 release articles,
cross-checked against tagged releases. The three highlights are macOS
patch notifications (Premium), Android zero-touch enrollment (Premium),
and self-service configuration profiles (not Premium), so the section
isn't all Premium. Patch releases 4.93.1 and 4.93.2 are covered by the
"See every release" link.
- **Planned:** the release planning board (view 10, filtered to
milestone 4.95.0), not the milestone fallback. There are 22 stories, all
assigned. 5.0.0 is due December 4, so November holds one release.
- **Workshops:** fleetdm.com/workshops, with the next five after the
send date.
- **Community contributions:** PRs merged in public `fleetdm` repos in
October by authors outside the `fleetdm` org, minus bots.

## Left out on purpose

- **"Windows: force standard account"** was in the planned section in
both September and October and hasn't shipped. It's not on the 4.95.0
board, so it isn't mentioned a third time.
- **Multiple versions of the same App Store app** is named in the 4.94.0
release article's title, but the article marks it as moved to 4.95. It's
listed under "Also on deck" instead of "shipped."
- **Amsterdam workshop (November 3):** past by the time this sends.
- **Fleet staff or contractors whose accounts aren't in the org:**
@TraiLynne and @thomcrowe. Both are confirmed in Fleet's Slack.
- **Other October content:** the warehouse inventory article and
Retriever guide, the PHP2Shell and eMudhra pieces, and every `industry
news` article. The routine doesn't feature that category.

<details>
<summary>Suggested <code>~/fleet-newsletters/contributors.tsv</code>
lines (append once confirmed)</summary>

```
TraiLynne	fleet	Trai Lynne Compton, Fleet staff (Slack); not an org member
thomcrowe	fleet	Thom Crowe, Fleet contractor (website); not an org member
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Ledger append block: run only after this issue is
sent</summary>

`~/fleet-newsletters/ledger.jsonl` didn't exist before this issue.
Repeats were checked against the September and October issues in the
repo instead. This block creates the ledger and records every item in
this issue.

```bash
mkdir -p ~/fleet-newsletters && cat >> ~/fleet-newsletters/ledger.jsonl <<'EOF'
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"shipped","id":"4.93.0"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"shipped","id":"4.94.0"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"51599"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"39176"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"51979"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"53284"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"33062"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"52534"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"47904"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"fleet-virtual-summit-2026"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2003719976388"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2003716644422"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2002266719658"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2002266872114"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2002267524064"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"apple-in-the-enterprise-2026"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"nvidia-gtc-2026"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"tailworm-what-to-do-about-tailscale-ssh-before-the-fix-ships"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"revert-a-bad-change-in-gitops"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-chrome-extensions"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-edge-extensions"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-firefox-extensions"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-safari-extensions"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"use-claude-code-with-fleet"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"roadmap-preview-october-2026"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"social","id":"7513481631123394560"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#50836"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53407"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53670"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53768"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53810"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53824"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54019"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54181"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54296"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54411"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54502"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54509"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54592"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54685"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54708"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54726"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54785"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55056"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55058"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55072"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55089"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55097"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55127"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55249"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55266"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55353"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55471"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55492"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55547"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55841"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55900"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55903"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55946"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56072"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56085"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56148"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56214"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56266"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56287"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56376"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56403"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56486"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56498"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56575"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56596"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56609"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56657"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56708"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56719"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56983"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56984"}
{"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56985"}
EOF
```

</details>

## Testing

- [x] Confirmed the markdown passes the website build's metadata checks:
required meta tags, ISO `publishedOn`, description at 139 of 150
characters, `category` set to `newsletter`, H1 matching `articleTitle`,
and no Vue-template braces.
- [x] Verified all 54 fleetdm.com, GitHub, and Eventbrite links return
200. LinkedIn returns 999 to automated requests, so the profile links
come from the handbook and the post link was opened in a browser.
- [x] Checked the copy against Fleet's content style: no em dashes,
sentence-case headings, Oxford commas, and Fleet Premium labels carried
through from the release articles.
- [ ] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually

## AI

**AI:** Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

---------

Co-authored-by: robinedev <[email protected]>

**Related issue:** Resolves #56270

Follow-up to #56498, covering the two items from the [QA on
#56270](#56270):

**A. Search ignores the platform suffix.**
`ListAvailableFleetMaintainedApps` searched with `fma.name LIKE ?`, so
"for Windows" still matched "R for Windows" even though the row shows
"R". The search now uses the same rule as the row name: it drops a
trailing ` for macOS`, ` for Mac` or ` for Windows` when the app's
other-platform entry has the same name without it.

| Search | `main` | This PR |
|---|---|---|
| `R` | R | R |
| `WeChat` | WeChat | WeChat |
| `for Windows` | Google Credential Provider for Windows, NVM for
Windows, **R** | Google Credential Provider for Windows, NVM for Windows
|
| `for Mac` | Malwarebytes for Mac, Mimecast for Mac, **R**, Teradici
PCoIP Software Client for macOS, **WeChat** | Malwarebytes for Mac,
Mimecast for Mac, Teradici PCoIP Software Client for macOS |

Single-platform apps whose real name includes the suffix (e.g. "Google
Credential Provider for Windows") still match. This was confirmed in the
issue thread.

**B. Row name no longer depends on sort order.** `combineAppsByPlatform`
already took `name` from the macOS entry, but `displayName` defaulted to
whichever entry came first. It now defaults to the macOS name too, so
apps whose platform names differ in other ways stay stable across sort
directions.

# Checklist for submitter

- [x] Changes file added for user-visible changes in `changes/`,
`orbit/changes/` or `ee/fleetd-chrome/changes`.
See [Changes
files](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/main/docs/Contributing/guides/committing-changes.md#changes-files)
for more information.

- [x] Input data is properly validated, `SELECT *` is avoided, SQL
injection is prevented (using placeholders for values in statements), JS
inline code is prevented especially for url redirects, and untrusted
data interpolated into shell scripts/commands is validated against shell
metacharacters.
- The search term is still passed as a placeholder via `likePattern`;
the regex is a constant.

## Testing

- [x] Added/updated automated tests
- `TestMaintainedApps/ListAvailableAppsSearchIgnoresPlatformSuffix`
(MySQL): R, WeChat and Google Credential Provider entries; checks the
searches in the table above. Fails on `main`, passes here; all of
`TestMaintainedApps` passes.
- `shows the macOS name regardless of order when names differ otherwise`
(Jest): combines "Foo"/"Foo Desktop" in both orders and expects "Foo".
  - `go vet`, gofmt, eslint and prettier are clean.
- [x] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually
- Ran `fleet serve --dev --dev_license` built from `main` and from this
branch against the same dev database, and searched **Add software >
Fleet-maintained** for `for mac` and `for windows` (screenshots below).

## AI

**AI:** Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

## Frontend

- [x] Attached a screenshot or screen recording of each user-visible
change. For changes to existing UI, show the before and after.

**Add software > Fleet-maintained**, same dev database:

| Search | Before (`main`) | After (this PR) |
|---|---|---|
| `for mac` | ![before for
mac](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Prajwal2246/fleet/7d357ca6cc1459c4b6bd56d122e90d6bea7b3096/before-for-mac.png)
| ![after for
mac](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Prajwal2246/fleet/7d357ca6cc1459c4b6bd56d122e90d6bea7b3096/after-for-mac.png)
|
| `for windows` | ![before for
windows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Prajwal2246/fleet/7d357ca6cc1459c4b6bd56d122e90d6bea7b3096/before-for-windows.png)
| ![after for
windows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Prajwal2246/fleet/7d357ca6cc1459c4b6bd56d122e90d6bea7b3096/after-for-windows.png)
|

Before: R and WeChat match the platform suffix even though their rows
show "R" and "WeChat". After: they no longer match, and single-platform
apps whose real name has the suffix (Malwarebytes for Mac, Google
Credential Provider for Windows, etc.) still do.

cc @Brajim20 @marko-lisica


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Fleet-maintained app search now matches combined app names without
platform suffixes, while single-platform apps continue to match their
full names.
* Combined app entries now consistently display the shared name whether
the macOS or Windows entry appears first.

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Co-authored-by: Prajwal2246 <[email protected]>