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Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 1: Refreshed UI, Debugging, AI, Productivity and More
Microsoft has released the first preview of Visual Studio version 17.9. Preview 1 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity. Including some AI features like GitHub Copilot, IntelliSense support for Unreal Engine projects, memory management and debugging improvements and this preview version is packed with refreshed UI.
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GitHub Copilot Chat in Open Beta: Now Available for All Individuals in Visual Studio and VS Code
GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that allows developers to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions directly within a supported IDE. It is currently in open beta and available for all GitHub Copilot individual users across Visual Studio and VS Code.
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AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager
AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like they do when using other repositories.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2: Productivity, C++ Enhancements, and Debugging Improvements
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Preview 2 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and code debugging as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. The latest version is available for download, and developers have the opportunity to explore and utilise its advancements in the preview version.
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Open Source Git Project Releases Version 2.40
Recently, the open-source Git project released its latest version 2.40, bringing some new features and bug fixes. Highlights of this release include updates to git jump tool, enhancements to cat-file tool, and faster response on Windows.
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GitHub Releases Copilot for Business amid Ongoing Legal Controversy
GitHub has announced Copilot for Business, a business plan for their OpenAI-powered coding assistant Copilot. The release follows a recent class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for violating open-source licenses.
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Git 2.39.1 Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities affecting Git's commit log formatting and .gitattributes parsing in Git versions up to and including Git 2.39 have been recently patched. Both may lead to remote code execution, so users are required to upgrade immediately to Git 2.39.1.
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JetBrains Launches Containerized Dev Env Space On-Premises In Feature-Constrained Beta
Space, JetBrains's take on containerized, remote development environments, is now available on-premises as a beta for all organizations that prefer to have full control over their tools instead of relying on third-party Cloud. The beta includes support for most of the features available in Space Cloud except for development environments, which will be included in the final release, says JetBrains.
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AWS Proton Adds Terraform Support and Git Template Storage
AWS recently announced two new additions to AWS Proton, their fully-managed application delivery service. The first feature allows for defining and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform. The second feature allows for using Git repositories to manage the Proton templates.
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GitHub CLI 2.0 Brings Support for Extensions
With its new major version, GitHub CLI enables extending its basic feature set by installing and running extensions. A GitHub CLI extension is just a repository prefixed with gh- and providing an executable file with the same name as the repository.
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Git 2.31 Release: Maintenance Moved to Background
Git 2.31 sees the light at almost three months after the previous official version. It brings the option of running git maintenance in background and also the addition of reverse index files. You can conclude that its main focus is a more efficient tool with increased usability.
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Analyzing Git Clone Vulnerability
A new Git version, 2.30.2, fixes a security vulnerability in Git large file storage (LFS) and other clean/smudge filters affecting Git 2.15 and newer. An analysis.
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Microsoft Releases Git Experience in Visual Studio
Earlier this month, during the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of Visual Studio for Windows. One of the most critical features of this release was what Microsoft called "The Git Experience": a set of tools that makes Git the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019, allowing the developer to control a Git repository directly from Visual Studio.
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Git 2.29 Introduces Experimental Support for SHA-256
The latest version of Git experimentally enables using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 for file hashing, thus removing a long-standing vulnerability which in principle allowed an attacker to forge a counterfeited repository with a HEAD not distinguishable from the original's.
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New GitHub Repositories Default to Main Branch
All newly created GitHub repositories will default to 'main' for their main branch from today. In addition, existing repositories can also rename the 'master' branch; read on to find out why you might want to do this, and the support that GitHub is providing to make this transition seamless.