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Malicious PyPI Package Removes netstat, Tampers with SSH Config
A recent report by Sonatype security researcher Ax Sharma highlights newly discovered malicious packages on the PyPI registry, including aptx, which can install the Meterpreter trojan disguised as pip, delete the netstat system utility, and tamper with SSH authorized_keys file.
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Farewell to Subversion: GitHub Sunsets Support after 13 Years
Next January GitHub will remove Subversion support from GitHub.com, with GitHub Enterprise Server following soon after. Introduced in 2010 to provide developers with a path to Git, the SVN endpoint now receives only 0.02% of the requests to the source control service.
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Adding Video in .NET MAUI Apps with the New MediaElement
Microsoft recently released another control for the .NET MAUI platform: MediaElement. This is one of the components of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit that allows audio and video playback within .NET MAUI applications.
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Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Load Testing, a fully-managed load-testing service allowing customers to test the resiliency of their applications regardless of where they are hosted.
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The Ten Year Journey of Facebook's App for iOS
Facebook rewrote its iOS app in 2012 to take advantage of native performance and improve reliability and usability over its previous HTML5-based cross-platform implementation. In the ten years since the rewrite, the app codebase has evolved non-stop to account for the introduction of new features, to circumvent SDK limitations, and to keep up with changes in the iOS platform.
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Azure Durable Functions Now Supports Storage Backends Microsoft Netherite and MSSQL
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Durable Functions support for the new storage providers, Netherite and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), is generally available.
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Software Security Report Finds JavaScript Applications Have Fewer Flaws Than Java and .NET
Veracode's State of Software Security report for 2023 found that there is a 27% chance within a given month that security flaws will be introduced into an application. The report also found that JavaScript applications on average have fewer flaws and faster flaw resolution than Java and .NET applications.
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Microsoft OpenJDK Introduces Experimental Feature for Improving Escape Analysis
Microsoft announced an experimental feature, still under development, which improves the performance of escape analysis by increasing the opportunities for scalar replacement. Currently the feature is only available for Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, but might become part of OpenJDK in the future.
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gopaddle, a Low Code Internal Developer Platform for MicroK8s and Edge
gopaddle is a low-code internal developer platform (IDP) for MicroK8s edge cloud. It aims to simplify and accelerate the development of edge cloud applications by providing a web-based interface to Kubernetes developers for creating, deploying, and managing applications.
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JobRunr, the Java Scheduler Library, Releases Version 6.0
JobRunr, a Java library designed to handle background tasks in a reliable manner within a JVM instance, released the new version 6.0 after a year of development since the release of version 5.0 in March 2022.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0-Alpha4, Spring, GlassFish, Quarkus, Ktor, (Re)Introducing RIFE2
This week's Java roundup for January 30th, 2023, features news from JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Tools 4.17.2, GlassFish 7.0.1, Quarkus 2.16.1, Helidon 4.0.0.-ALPHA4, Hibernate Search 6.1.8 and 5.11.12, PrimeFaces 11.0.10 and 12.0.3, Apache Commons CSV 1.10.0, JHipster Lite 0.27.0, Ktor 2.2.3 and (re)introducing RIFE2 1.0.
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Go 1.20 Improves Compiler Performance and Extends Coverage Support
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.20, improves compiler performance, bringing it back in line with Go 1.17. Additionally, the language now supports conversion from slice to arrays and revises struct comparison.
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Azure Now Supports Database as a Service Couchbase Capella
A cloud database platform company Couchbase recently announced that its Capella database as a Service (DBaaS) offering as a fully-managed service is available on Azure.
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.NET Community Toolkit 8.1 Released
Recently Microsoft released .NET Community Toolkit 8.1. This new release contains performance improvements to the MVVW Toolkit source generators. There are also new features such as custom attributes for ObservableProperty, MVVM Toolkit analyzers, IObservable<T> messenger extensions and support for .NET 7 and C# 11.
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Windows Terminal 1.17 Preview Released
Windows Terminal preview version 1.17, released on January 24th, brings various features and bug-fixes to Microsoft’s own open source terminal application. Notable features include Dropdown Menu Customization, Process Restart support and an improved Color Schemes Page.