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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Released, Agent2Agent Java SDK, Kotlin, WildFly, JobRunr, Maven
This week's Java roundup for June 23rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Jakarta EE 11; the new Agent2Agent Java SDK introduced by Red Hat; the release of Kotlin 2.2.0; the first beta release of WildFly 37; the first release candidate of JobRunr 8.0.0; and the fourth release candidate of Maven 4.0.
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Google Previews Gemini's Agent Mode in Android Studio Narwhal
Google has announced the integration of Gemini in Android Studio's Agent Mode into the latest canary release of Android Studio, Android Studio Narwhal preview. According to Google, the new Agent Mode is designed to handle multi-step development tasks that span across several files.
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.NET 10 Preview 5 Brings Blazor Observability, XAML Simplification and More
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 Preview 5, delivering updates across multiple components, including ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Entity Framework Core, and more. As reported, this preview introduces new features and improvements to enhance developer productivity, application observability, and customization.
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C++26 Draft Finalized with Static Reflection, Contracts, and Sender/Receiver Types
The next major release of C++ reached an important milestone earlier this month, when the ISO C++ committee froze the feature set that will go into C++26. Notable additions include compile-time reflection, contracts, asynchronous execution, and many others.
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AWS Lambda Gains Native Avro and Protobuf Support for Kafka Events with Schema Registry Integration
Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and filtering, and optimizes costs through efficient event handling. Integration with AWS Glue and Confluent registries simplifies development, allowing cleaner data consumption and enhanced scalability.
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MicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications
Ten months after the release of MicroProfile 7.0, the MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile to the Java community. This new release features continued alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and updates to two community-developed core APIs.
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JSON Modules Can Now Be Imported in JavaScript in All Modern Browsers, CSS Modules to Follow
Thomas Steiner, developer relations engineer at Google, recently published a blog post announcing that JSON module scripts were now available in all modern browsers. Developers using the latest version of modern browsers can now directly import JSON modules into their JavaScript code. The feature builds on the Import Attributes proposal. Native CSS modules import may soon follow.
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LinkedIn Announces Northguard and Xinfra: Scaling beyond Kafka for Log Storage and Pub/Sub
LinkedIn today announced Northguard, a scalable log storage system that replaces Kafka, and Xinfra, a virtualized Pub/Sub layer. Northguard delivers sharded data & metadata, log striping, strong consistency, and self-balancing clusters at a larger scale than Kafka, while Xinfra enables seamless migration and unified access across Kafka and Northguard.
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SwiftUI for iOS 26 Embraces Liquid Glass, Introduces WebView and Rich Text Editing
At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled the latest iteration of its declarative UI framework, SwiftUI, featuring two major additions: a new SwiftUI-native WebView type and support for rich-text editing within TextView controls. The update also brings a plethora of additional improvements and new performance tools.
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AWS Introduces Exportable Public SSL/TLS Certificates
AWS has recently announced exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from AWS Certificate Manager, addressing a long-standing community request and allowing users to export certificates with their private keys for use beyond managed services on AWS.
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GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java
The University of Manchester's Beehive Lab has released GPULlama3.java, marking the first Java-native implementation of Llama3 with automatic GPU acceleration. This project leverages TornadoVM to enable GPU-accelerated large language model inference without requiring developers to write CUDA or native code, potentially transforming how Java developers approach AI apps in enterprise environments.
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Java News Roundup: MicroProfile, Open Liberty, TomEE, JobRunr, LangChain4j, Apple SwiftJava
This week's Java roundup for June 16th, 2025, features news highlighting: point releases of MicroProfile 7.1, Apache TomEE 10.1 and LangChain4j 1.1; the June edition of Open Liberty; the second beta release of JobRunr 8.0; and Apple’s new SwiftJava utility.
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AWS Introduces Extended Threat Detection for EKS via GuardDuty
AWS has expanded GuardDuty’s threat detection capabilities on EKS clusters, introducing new runtime monitoring features that use a managed eBPF agent to detect container-level threats.
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Microsoft Azure Enhances Observability with OpenTelemetry Support for Logic Apps and Functions
Microsoft has expanded OpenTelemetry support in Azure Logic Apps and Functions, enhancing observability and interoperability across platforms. This open-source framework enables seamless data generation and correlation, enhancing diagnostics beyond standard telemetry. With streamlined configuration and integration, Azure's offerings aim for standardized observability across cloud services.
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Spring News Roundup: Spring Vault Milestone, Point Releases and End of OSS Support
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 16th, 2025, highlighting: the first milestone release of Spring Vault 4.0; and point releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Kafka. Release trains for numerous Spring projects will also reach the end of OSS support on June 30, 2025.