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Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Liberica NIK, Open Liberty, Micronaut, JHipster, Apache ShenYu
This week's Java roundup for August 1st, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring point and milestone releases, Liberica NIK 22.2.0 and 21.3.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.8 and 22.0.0.9-beta, Micronaut 3.6.0, WildFly 27 Alpha4, Hibernate ORM 6.1.2, Hibernate Validator 6.2.4, 7.0.5 and 8.0.0.CR2, Hibernate Search 6.1.6, JHipster 7.9.2, 7.9.1 and 7.9.0, JBang 0.96.4 and Apache ShenYu.
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GitHub Projects Now Generally Available
Announced in beta at GitHub Universe 2021, GitHub Projects is now generally available, including new features for issue grouping and pivoting, metadata customization, charting, and improved automation.
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Are Recursive Serverless Functions the Biggest Billing Risk on the Cloud?
Forrest Brazeal, head of content at Google Cloud, recently argued that serverless functions are the cloud's biggest billing risk for developers as there's no simple way to protect against recursive calls and they can scale out almost indefinitely on all the cloud providers.
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Microsoft Claims Entity Framework Core 7 Faster When Saving Changes
Entity Framework (EF) Core, Microsoft's object-to-database mapper library for .NET Framework, brings performance improvements for data updates in version 7, Microsoft claims. The performance of SaveChanges method in EF7 is up to 74% faster than in EF6, in some scenarios.
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Visual Studio Code Server Now Available in Private Preview
Microsoft has announced a private preview of the backend service that powers its Visual Studio Code editor, along with a specific CLI to manage it. Visual Studio Code Server can be installed everywhere and easily used through VS Code for the Web running in a browser.
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Meta Open-Sources 200 Language Translation AI NLLB-200
Meta AI recently open-sourced NLLB-200, an AI model that can translate between any of over 200 languages. NLB-200 is a 54.5B parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model that was trained on a dataset containing more than 18 billion sentence pairs. On benchmark evaluations, NLLB-200 outperforms other state-of-the-art models by up to 44%.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon 3.0, GraalVM 22.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2, Vert.x Virtual Threads
This week's Java roundup for July 25th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring project updates, Helidon 3.0, GraalVM 22.2, Quarkus 2.11.1 and 2.10.4, Micronaut 3.5.4, Eclipse Vert.x virtual threads incubator, Jakarta EE 10 updates, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2, JUnit 5.9.0, Apache Software Foundation project updates and Multik 0.2.0.
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Slate 0.82 and Plate 15 Releases Improve Rich-Text Editing Experience
Slate 0.82.0 made significant updates for its support of editing on Android devices and introduces `useSlateSelection` and additionally adds a React hook that triggers whenever the selection changes. Plate 15 improves its Link toolbar, improves paste handling of hyperlinks into an editor page, and provides greater control over rendering within plugins.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Premium SSD V2 Disk Storage
Recently Microsoft announced the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Microsoft Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides, according to the company, the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies .
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Google Expands the Tau VM Family with Arm-Based Processors
Recently, Google announced its Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture of Compute Engine called Tau T2A. These VMs are the latest addition to the Tau VM family that offers VMs optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads and are available in preview.
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Jetpack Compose 1.2 Includes Lazy Grids, Support for Google Fonts, and More
Jetpack Compose 1.2 stabilizes a number of features, including lazy grids, nested scroll, easing curve for animations, and more. In addition, it brings several new experimental features, like custom layouts and downloadable fonts, and fixes many issues.
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Google AI Open-Sourced a New ML Tool for Conceptual and Subjective Queries over Images
Google AI open-sourced mood board search, a new ML-powered tool for subjective or conceptual queries over images. Mood board search helps users to define conceptual and subjective queries like peaceful, beautiful, over images.
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TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 Beta Releases Add ESM for Node.js and Better Type Inference
TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 introduce ES Module (ESM) support for Node.js, improved type inference and control flow analysis, and significant performance improvements.
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Microsoft to End Support for .NET Core 3.1 in December 2022
The long-term-support (LTS) version 3.1 of Microsoft .NET Core Framework is slated to go out of support on December 13th, 2022. Microsoft recommends upgrading .NET Core 3.1 applications to .NET 6.0 to stay supported for the future, while the developers have mixed feelings about the .NET support policy.
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GitLab 15 Improves Editing, Metrics, Container Scanning, Security and More
With the recent release of GitLab version 15.2, open-core company GitLab Inc. has announced a series of improvements, including an enhanced Wiki editor, adding SAML integration for enterprises, improving dashboards, and adding internal notes.