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.NET 7 Removes Its Insecure XmlSecureResolver
.NET 7 has replaced the insecure XmlSecureResolver with a new ThrowingResolver type.
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Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6 Use Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9, Support Native Java with GraalVM
VMware released Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, a new generation for the Spring ecosystem. Spring Framework 6 requires Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9. It also embeds observability through Micrometer with tracing and metrics. Spring Boot 3 requires Spring Framework 6. It has built-in support for creating native executables through static Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation with GraalVM Native Image.
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Cloudflare Introduces Super Slurper Feature for Its R2 Object Storage in Private Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the R2 Super Sluper feature, which enables developers to move all their data to R2 in one giant slurp or sip by sip through an intuitive UI and API. The feature is in private beta by signing up.
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AWS Opens New Region in Spain
AWS recently opened a new region in Spain to offer cloud services in the Iberian Peninsula and address in-country data residency and compliance requirements. The new eu-south-2 region is based in Aragón and has three availability zones.
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Heuristic Static Analysis Tool GuardDog Used to Detect Several Malicious PyPi Packages
GuardDog is new open source tool aimed at identifying malicious Python Packages using Sempreg and package metadata analysis. Thanks to a set of source code heuristics, GuardDog can detect malicious packages never seen before and has been used to identify several malicious PyPi packages in the wild.
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C# 11 Improvements for Strings, List Patterns and Object Creation
As part of the .NET 7 launch, on November 8th Microsoft unveiled the new features of C# 11, the latest version of the popular .NET programming language. The most prominent improvements include string enhancements, static method abstractions, list patterns and required members for object creation.
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Vanilla Extract - a Modern CSS in JS Library
Vanilla Extract is a new "CSS in JS" library that offers type safety, good theming support, and plenty of extensions, making it an exciting alternative to existing solutions such as Styled Components.
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AWS Announces Redis 7 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 7 compatibility with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features, such as Redis Functions, ACL improvements, and Sharded Pub/Sub.
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.NET 7 Adds Aggressive Garbage Collection for Kubernetes
In a Kubernetes cluster, idle services may consume too much memory, resulting in an out-of-memory situation for the whole server even nothing significant is occurring. The new GCCollectionMode.Aggressive option allows the application to tell the runtime to release memory it doesn’t need when going idle.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6, JCP Election, Project Valhalla, OpenJDK Updates
This week's Java roundup for November 14th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Project Valhalla, JavaFX 20, JCP election results, Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Data 2022.0, Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10-RC2, Spring Modulith 0.1-RC1, Quarkus 2.14.1 and 3.0.Alpha1, Micronaut 3.7.4, Piranha 22.11.0, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.5, Apache Tomcat 10.1.2 and 9.0.69, Apache Beam 2.43.0 and PrimeFaces 12.0.2.
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Angular 15 - Standalone Components are Stable
Google recently released Angular 15, the latest version of their popular SPA framework. The update includes a stable API for standalone components alongside several other significant improvements.
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Tagged Strings in Visual Studio and .NET 7
As part of .NET 7, developers now have the ability to tag strings using the StringSyntax attribute. These tags inform tools such as Visual Studio as to the nature of the string. For example, you can mark the string as containing JSON or RegEx, and Visual Studio will apply the appropriate syntax highlighting.
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Upgrade to Apache Commons Text 1.10 to Avoid New Exploit
A new vulnerability in the Apache Commons Text, AKA Text4Shell, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host machine. Originally reported by Alvaro Munoz, principal security researcher at GitHub, CVE-2022-42889 is similar to Spring4Shell and Log4Shell, allowing remote code execution (RCE).
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Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers
At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2022, Fermyon launched its microservice-oriented platform for WebAssembly apps, called Fermyon Cloud, which is now available in open beta.
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Microsoft Introduces New Azure HX and HBv4 Virtual Machines for High-Performance Computing
Microsoft recently announced new HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines (VMs) in preview suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis, frontend and backend electronic design automation (EDA), rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, AI inference, and financial risk analysis.