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Java News Roundup: JEP 424, NetBeans 13, Hazelcast 5.1, JHipster 7.7, Spring Cloud Gateway CVEs
This week's Java roundup for February 28th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, point and milestone releases on various Spring projects, Quarkus 2.7.3.Final, Micronaut 3.3.4, HIbernate Validator versions 6.2.2.Final, 7.0.3.Final and 8.0.0.Alpha1, Hazelcast 5.1, Apache NetBeans 13, Apache Log4j 2.17.2, JHipster 7.7.0, and JReleaser 1.0.0-M3.
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Rust 1.59 Supports Inline Assembly, Extends Destructuring, and More
Rust 1.59 now allows developers to include machine-level instructions in Rust programs using asm!. Additionally, destructuring has been extended beyond bindings to include assignments, and generics now support the specification of default values for const parameters.
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AWS WAF Introduces Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention
Amazon recently introduced Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention, a new feature of AWS Web Application Firewall to protect login pages at network edge.
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Cloudflare Report Shows Rapid Growth in API Traffic
Cloudflare has recently released its annual Landscape of API Traffic report. The report analyzes the traffic data harnessed by Cloudflare’s global network to provide insights into the current industry trends of web traffic.
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Google Announces Second Generation Cloud Functions
Google recently announced the public preview of the second generation of Cloud Functions, the functions as a service platform on Google Cloud. The new version introduces more controls over functions runtime, provides better performances and scalability and supports triggers from more than 90 event sources.
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JDK 18 and JDK 19: What We Know So Far
JDK 18, the first non-LTS release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into three categories: Core Java Library, Java Tools and Java Specification. We examine JDK 18 and predict what features may be targeted for JDK 19.
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GitLens 12 Brings Support for Visual Studio Code for the Web
GitKraken launched GitLens 12, an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that enables using Git from Visual Studio Code for the Web and github.dev. Besides new free features, improvements, and fixes, GitLens 12 also introduces premium features, including Worktrees and Visual File History.
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Shepherd JavaScript Library: Guided User Tours of Your Application
Shepherd is a JavaScript library that provides a simple interface for creating guided user journeys in web applications. It's framework-agnostic, easy to use, and works great on desktop and mobile applications alike.
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Kotlin 1.6.20 Preview Features Context Receivers and Performance Improvements
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, a preview version of the upcoming GA release that introduces context receivers, several performance improvement options to reduce compilation time and a concurrent garbage collector.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Projects Updates, Value Objects (Preview) JEP, Quarkus 2.7.2
This week's Java roundup for February 21st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Quarkus 2.7.2.Final, JReleaser early-access, and multiple Spring project updates: Spring Boot 2.7.0-M1, 2.6.4, 2.5.10; a new ListCrudRepository interface for Spring Data 3.0-M2; Spring Security 5.7.0-M2, 5.6.2, 5.5.5; Spring Session 2021.1.2, 2021.0.5; Spring Shell 2.1.0-M3; and Spring Batch 4.3.5.
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Couchbase Mobile 3 Brings New C and Kotlin APIs, Simplified Administration
NoSQL database maker Couchbase has released Couchbase Mobile 3, its edge-ready mobile database, introducing a new C API to embed Couchbase Lite on embedded platforms, Kotlin support on Android, a new administration REST API, and security enhancements.
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AWS Introduces Managed Prefix List for CloudFront
AWS recently announced the availability of the AWS managed prefix list for CloudFront. Customers can now limit inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic to a VPC and an application from only IP addresses that belong to CloudFront’s origin-facing servers.
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New CodeGuru Reviewer Features Detector Library and Security Detectors for Log-Injection Flaws
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages machine learning to detect security defects in code (Java and Python) and offers suggestions for code quality improvement. Recently, AWS introduced two new features for the tool, with a new Detector Library and security detectors for Log-Injection Flaws.
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Interview with Magnus Madsen about the Flix Programming Language
Flix, an open-source programming language inspired by many programming languages, enables developers to write code in a functional, imperative or logic style. Flix looks like Scala, uses a type system based on Hindley-Milner and a concurrency model inspired by Go. The JVM language supports unique features such as the polymorphic effect system and Datalog constraints.
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Groovy 4.0.0 Introduces Switch Expressions and Sealed Types
Version 4.0.0 of Apache Groovy introduces switch expressions, sealed types, built-in type checkers, built-in macro methods and incubating features such as records, JavaShell, POJO annotation, Groovy contracts, Groovy-Integrated Query and TOML support. This release also contains several smaller improvements and breaking changes due to features removed from this latest version.