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Java News Roundup: Spring Boot Updates, Eclipse Temurin JDK 17, Apache Camel Ends Support for JDK 8
It was relatively quiet during the week of September 20th, 2021, with most news coming from point and milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security and Spring Cloud. Other news includes the release of Eclipse Temurin JDK 17 binaries, Build 16 of the JDK 18 early-access builds, Hibernate ORM 5.6.0.Beta2, WildFly 25 Beta 1, Apache Camel dropping support for JDK 8 and JDKMon 17.0.0.
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Google Cloud Announces Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has recently announced the preview of Backup for GKE, a cloud-native way to protect, manage, and restore containerized applications and data running on Kubernetes.
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Find out What to Focus on in Software in 2022; See Randy Shoup’s Top QCon Plus Topics
Each QCon software conference is individually organized by a committee of senior software leaders who work across a wide spectrum of technology. We recently interviewed Randy Shoup, VP engineering and chief architect at eBay & QCon Plus November 2021 Committee Member, who shared some of the tracks he is looking forward to at the event this November.
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Litmus 2.0 Release Includes Multi-Tenancy, Chaos Workflows, GitOps, and Observability
Last month, Litmus 2.0 was released for general availability, with the goal of simplifying chaos engineering by adding new features like chaos center, chaos workflows, GitOps for chaos, multi-tenancy, observability, and private chaos hubs. InfoQ interviewed Umasankar Mukkara, CEO of ChaosNative and co-creator and maintainer of Litmus engineering platform.
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Java News Roundup: JDK LTS Release Cadence, OpenJDK, Spring Updates, Helidon, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for September 13th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, a proposal to accelerate the JDK LTS release cadence from three years to two years, JDK 18, Liberica JDK 17, updates to Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Tools 4, Payara Platform, Helidon, JDK 17 dev builds of GraalVM, Hibernate, Piranha, Apache Camel, JobRunr 4.0 and the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer survey.
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NSA and CISA Publish Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
The National Security Agency(NSA) in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) recently published the Kubernetes Hardening Guidance, a technical report focused on securing Kubernetes environments. The report identifies the common areas of Kubernetes security risks: supply chain, malicious actors, and insider threats.
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Rookout Launches Live Logger to Dynamically Modify Log Verbosity
Rookout, creators of Live Debugger, have launched Live Logger with the goal of making the wealth of information hidden in production logs more accessible. They intend to achieve that by dynamically switching the logging levels, log pipelining, log throughput tracking, text and context based filtering.
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MicroStream 5.0 is Now Open Source
MicroStream has reached version 5.0 and it is now published as open source. MicroStream is a persistence engine for storing any kind of Java object. It is similar to Java built-in serialization, but much more powerful. Markus Kett, CEO and co-founder of MicroStream, spoke to InfoQ about MicroStream.
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Microsoft Releases Zone-Redundant Storage for Azure Disk Storage into General Availability
Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced the preview of the zone-redundant storage (ZRS) option for Azure managed disks to further improve the reliability of their infrastructure, and now it is released into general availability (GA).
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Azure Firewall Introduces New Security Features
Microsoft recently announced new features for Azure Firewall, the managed network security service to protect Azure Virtual Network resources.
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Build Your Software Roadmap with QCon Plus; Kristen O’Leary Shares Top Topics
During a recent interview, Kristen O'Leary, senior developer relations engineer at Google and QCon Plus November 2021 Committee Member, shared with us the tracks she is most looking forward to at the event this November 1-12.
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AWS Releases Amazon EKS Anywhere into General Availability
Amazon EKS Anywhere is an open-source deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, with optional support offered by AWS. Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EKS Anywhere.
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Parcel 2: Rust-Based 10x Faster JavaScript Compiler, Modular Configuration, Differential Bundling
The team behind the zero-config bundler Parcel recently announced the first Parcel 2 release candidate. Parcel 2 is a ground up rewrite of Parcel that has been two years in the making. Parcel’s new JavaScript compiler is written in Rust and boasts 10x build performance improvement. Parcel 2 is fully extensible, supports automatic differential bundling, and much more.
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AWS Renames Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service
Recently AWS announced that it would rename Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service. With the renaming, the company releases the service with OpenSearch 1.0 support and makes it the successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
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Java 17, the Next Long-Term Support Release, is Now Available
Oracle has released version 17 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first long-term support release since JDK 11 in 2018, the final feature set includes 14 JEPs. Two of these, JEP 403 and JEP 411, generated some concerns within the Java community.