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Adobe to Replace Flash Professional
Adobe have announced the end of Flash Professional, replacing it with Animate CC -- a "premier web animation tool for developing HTML5 content".
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Microsoft Bumps TypeScript to Version 1.7
Microsoft has released version 1.7 of TypeScript, which enables async/await for ES6 targets and introduces a polymorphic this type.
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Security Release for DOS Vulnerability in Node.js
The Node Foundation has announced vulnerabilities in versions of Node.js from v0.12.x through to v5.x "whereby an external attacker can cause a denial of service."
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WordPress.com Replaces PHP with JavaScript
WordPress.com has replaced PHP with web technologies and a RESTful back-end API for the administration console.
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Microsoft Bumps Edge Rendering Engine to EdgeHTML 13
The roll out of the first major update to Windows 10 includes the latest rendering engine for Microsoft's Edge browser. EdgeHTML 13 includes a number of HTML5 and CSS features and is a good sign that Microsoft can continually update their newest browser.
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Redux: An Architectural Style Inspired by Flux
Redux uses a unidirectional data flow similar to Flux, but it has a single store which is changed by cloning the original store and applying some functions without side effects. There is no Dispatcher.
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Angular Meteor 1.2.0 Released
Meteor have released the updated version of Angular Meteor, its library for using AngularJS on top of Meteor.
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RiotJS Takes Big Step Forward with 2.3 Release
The Riot.js core team has released version 2.3, describing it as "a big step forward" for the React-like micro-library. The major 2.3 release organises the code base into six different modules: compiler, tmpl, observable, route, core and cli, meaning that if developers want to use just a part of the framework like the riot-route or the riot-observable they can do it without using riot at all.
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Object.observe ECMAScript Proposal to be Withdrawn
The ECMAScript proposal for Object.observe will be withdrawn at the next meeting. Though the idea held a lot of promise, the JavaScript world has evolved since it was first introduced.
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Rust 1.4 Brings Major Improvement to Cargo
The Rust core team has released 1.4 stable, with approximately 1200 changes including a major improvement to Cargo, stabilised APIs, and fixes to improve the behavior of associated types.
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New Releases: Ceylon 1.2, Node.js 5.0 and Atom 1.1
Ceylon, Node.js and Atom have all seen stable upgrades this week, and we have decided to write a common post covering most notable features and enhancements that come with these new versions.
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Atomic: A UI Designer for Android, iOS and the Web
Atomic is a user interface designer that runs in the browser. Without writing any code, application designers can use it to show how the interface of an application should look like and behave when certain commands are executed.
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Node.js 4.2 "Argon" Released Under Long Term Support Plan
The Node.js Foundation have released Argon, the first Node.js release covered under the Long Term Support plan.
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Angular 2: "We're Really Close"
In the keynote session at AngularConnect in London, Brad Green and friends gave attendees an overview of where Angular 2 is and made some important announcements. Angular 1 is still in full-force, but Angular 2 is shaping up to be a major force on the web and on mobile.
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Firefox Will No Longer Support Plug-ins Except for Flash
Mozilla has announced the end of NPAPI in Firefox by the end of 2016, the only plug-in continuing to be supported being Flash.