Add August 2026 community update blog post

[Copilot]

Summary

Adds radblog/content/posts/2026/community-update-august/index.md, the community update for August 2026 (2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31), covering the v0.60.0/v0.60.1 releases, the Radius Canvas announcement, unreleased work merged after v0.60, and community activity.

Post structure follows the existing 2026 community updates (community-update-may/june/july) rather than the generic template: same front matter shape, Radius Community Update: <Month> <Year> title, and the same "Get involved" list as the July post.

Sections:

• Releases — v0.60.0 (Aug 19): preview Radius.* extensible Resource Types, direct Bicep/Terraform module support for Recipes, SHA-1 → SHA-256 internal hashing; v0.60.1 (Aug 26) patch summary plus upgrade guidance.
• Radius Canvas — the announcement blog and walkthrough video supplied in the issue, what Canvas is (Applications / Environments / Deployments), and the deploy-status and live resource-state workflow artifacts in radius that back the live deployed graph (#12628, #12727).
• Upcoming features — eight items merged to main after the v0.60 cut: remote http(s) templates for rad deploy, managed Secrets projected through connections, cascading rad env delete --preview, Applications.* deprecation warning, --recipe-pack-group, Environment namespace uniqueness, RabbitMQ/PostgreSQL in the default Kubernetes Recipe pack, and CLI fixes.
• Community — resource-types-contrib and samples activity, plus new contributors @ryanwaite and @pujitha24.

Reason for change

The monthly community update for August 2026 had not been written. Content is derived only from GitHub data for the date range — all 411 merged PRs across the org (300 after excluding bots), August releases, and the v0.60.0/v0.60.1/v0.60.2 release notes. PR bodies were read for every item described in detail, and each August author's prior merge history was checked to identify genuine first-time contributors, so no PR number, username, or claim is invented.

How to test

1. Review the post at radblog/content/posts/2026/community-update-august/index.md for accuracy, tone, and readability against the July 2026 update.
2. Spot-check the linked PR numbers, usernames, and release links.
3. Optionally run npm ci && npm run start in radblog/ and view the post locally.

Note: hugo could not be run in the authoring environment — hugo mod download requires dl.google.com, which is unreachable there. This is a content-only markdown addition matching the front matter of existing posts.

File change summary

File	Summary of change
radblog/content/posts/2026/community-update-august/index.md	New. August 2026 community update: releases (v0.60.0, v0.60.1), Radius Canvas announcement, unreleased work merged after v0.60, Recipes/samples activity, new contributors, and the standard "Get involved" section.

Open question

The path/date convention follows the existing 2026 posts (community-update-<month>, published early the following month) rather than the monthly-update-<month> / last-day-of-month pattern described in the agent instructions. Easy to rename and redate if the other convention is preferred.

• Fixes Generate monthly community update for Aug 2026 #142

[Reshrahim]

@copilot too many pull requests details added to highlights. keep it simple and also merge contrib and samples into release updates

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[Copilot]

@copilot too many pull requests details added to highlights. keep it simple and also merge contrib and samples into release updates

Done in 8928c96.

• Removed every PR link and the implementation-level detail from the highlights; each item in Upcoming features is now a single plain sentence, and the "Fixes" bullet is gone.
• Folded resource-types-contrib and samples into Releases as a new "Recipes and samples" subsection, described in prose instead of a list of PR numbers.
• Community is now just the new contributors plus the pointer to good first issues.

Post is ~1270 words, down from ~1430.

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