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11 Sessions Not to Miss at QCon San Francisco 2025
As QCon San Francisco (Nov 17-21, 2025) approaches, the conference's program committee and track hosts are sharing their top picks from this year's lineup. Their selections span a wide range of topics, from AI-accelerated development and platform engineering to resilience patterns and career growth, all with QCon's signature focus on real-world case studies and lessons learned.
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Meta Ships React 19.2 Featuring Activity API, Cache Signals, and SSR Enhancements
React 19.2 introduces new APIs and performance improvements focused on better UI control and server rendering. Key additions include the new Activity component for managing UI states without losing component state, and the useEffectEvent hook, which separates event logic from effect dependencies.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 26 Release Schedule, GlassFish, Spring AI, Helidon, Mandrel 25, Seed4j
This week's Java roundup for September 29th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3; the proposed JDK 26 release schedule; the release of Mandrel 25 and Seed4j; milestone releases of GlassFish 8.0 and 7.1; the beta release of WildFly 38; and point releases of Spring AI, Helidon, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Gatherers4j and Keycloak.
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New DNS Armor Service Helps Google Cloud Workloads Preemptively Block Cyber Threats
Google Cloud's DNS Armor, in partnership with Infoblox, offers a vital layer of security against DNS-based threats for Google Cloud workloads. Utilizing advanced threat detection and machine learning, it identifies and mitigates risks like malware and data exfiltration, ensuring robust protection without impacting performance. Deployable as a managed service providing seamless control for users.
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AWS Introduces M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances for Faster Apple App Development
AWS has recently launched two new Mac instances (M4 and M4 Pro) built on Apple's latest M4 silicon. The new EC2 instances provide faster CPU performance, enhanced graphics, and increased memory for building iOS and macOS applications.
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Microsoft Announces Open-Source Agent Framework to Simplify AI Agent Development
Microsoft has announced the preview release of Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source software development kit designed to simplify the creation and deployment of artificial intelligence agents for developers across all skill levels, as reported in official blog posts from the company's development teams.
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Cursor 1.7 Adds Hooks for Agent Lifecycle Control
Cursor has introduced a Hooks system in version 1.7 that allows developers to intercept and modify agent behavior at defined lifecycle events. Hooks can be used to block shell commands, run formatters after edits, or observe agent actions in real time.
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VS Code MSSQL Extension v1.35 Brings Schema Compare, Designer and Local Containers to GA
Microsoft’s August 2025 release of the MSSQL extension for VS Code finalises three flagship features that were previously in preview: Schema Compare, Schema Designer and Local SQL Server Container. Version 1.35 promotes these capabilities to general availability (GA) and delivers usability and performance improvements across the extension.
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Nuqs Adds Debounce, Standard Schema Integration and Key Isolation
Nuqs, the type-safe URL state manager for React, just rolled out exciting features in version 2.5, including debounced URL updates, standardized schema generation, and improved re-render control. With experimental TanStack Router support and zero runtime dependencies, Nuqs enhances URL management while maintaining a lightweight footprint. Elevate your React applications with Nuqs!
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Google Stax Aims to Make AI Model Evaluation Accessible for Developers
Google Stax is a framework designed to replace subjective evaluations of AI models with an objective, data-driven, and repeatable process for measuring model output quality. Google says this will allow AI developers to tailor the evaluation process to their specific use cases rather than relying on generic benchmarks.
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OWASP Flags Tool Misuse as Critical Threat for Agentic AI
Earlier this year OWASP released guidance for Agentic AI security called Agentic AI - Threats and Mitigations. The document highlights the unique challenges involved in securely deploying this emerging technology and suggests mitigations and architectural patterns for defense.
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.NET MAUI RC1 Brings Diagnostics and Experimental Android CoreCLR Support
Microsoft has delivered the first release candidate (RC1) of .NET 10 along with go‑live support, indicating that the company considers the framework ready for production use. The RC1 notes focus on observability improvements, tweaks to existing controls and an experimental new runtime option for Android.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, Liberica NIK, Spring AI Milestone, Open Liberty, JobRunr, LangChain4j
This week's Java roundup for September 22nd, 2025, features news highlighting: new OpenJDK JEPs Lazy Constants (Second Preview) and Structured Concurrency (Sixth Preview); BellSoft Liberica Native Image Toolkit 25; the October 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the second milestone release of Spring AI 1.1.0; and point releases of JobRunr, LangChain4j and Quarkus.
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Swift 6.2 Released with Improved Concurrency, Safer Raw-Memory Access, Wasm Support and More
The most significant new feature in Swift 6.2 is approachable concurrency, a default, low-complexity approach to writing safe concurrent applications. Swift 6.2 also introduces new features to simplify low-level programming, including the InlineArray and Span types, and adds support for WebAssembly.
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Apollo GraphQL Client 4.0 Released with Leaner Bundles and Strengthened TypeScript Safety
Apollo GraphQL has launched Apollo Client 4.0, featuring a streamlined architecture, enhanced TypeScript support, and modular APIs to reduce bundle sizes by 20-30%. Key updates include opt-in features, improved error handling, and a decoupled core library, making it easier for developers to manage GraphQL operations across various frameworks. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.