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Google and GitHub Announce OpenSSF Scorecards v4 with New GitHub Actions Workflow
GitHub and Google have announced the version 4 release of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)'s Scorecards project. Scorecards is an automated security tool that identifies risky supply chain practices in open source projects. This release includes a new Scorecards GitHub Action, new security checks, and a large increase in the repositories included in the foundations weekly scans.
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Microsoft Releases YARP - Yet Another Reverse Proxy
Last year, in November, Microsoft released YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy), a reverse-proxy project developed during the last years by Microsoft as an open-source project.
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GraalVM 22.0 Released with Native Image Improvements
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages, has released version 22.0 with many native image improvements. The native image builder utility comes with significant improvements to speed up build times, reduce image sizes, utilize less memory to build & run images, and provide deep insights into image generation process.
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Aqua Security Reports Large Increase in Supply Chain Attacks
Aqua Security's recent report highlights the increasing threat of supply chain attacks. According to the report, supply chain attacks grew by 300% from 2020 to 2021 while the level of security across software development environments remained low. Google and the CNCF have recently released papers detailing approaches to improving the security of the supply chain.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 in RD2, Spring Boot Updates, GraalVM 22, WildFly 2022 Release Plan
This week's Java roundup for January 17th, 2022, features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, JDK 19, multiple Spring releases, Payara Platform, Open Liberty 22.0.0.1 and 22.0.0.2-beta, Quarkus 2.6.3.Final, WildFly 26.0.1 and 2022 release plan, Micronaut 3.2.7 and 3.3.0-M1, Hibernate ORM 5.6.4.Final and Hibernate Search 6.1.0-CR1, Liberica JDK 17.0.2, GraalVM 22 and JReleaser 0.10.0 and 1.0.0-M1.
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Google Updates its Eventarc Service with New UI, Event Destination, and Storage Trigger
Recently, Google announced several new features for its eventing platform Eventarc. The new features are a new UI, Cloud Run for Anthos services as an event destination, and a generally available (GA) Storage Cloud trigger.
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Knative Announces v1.1 and Applies to Become a CNCF Incubating Project
The Knative community released version 1.1 of the Knative project across multiple components. The core components serving and eventing have notable changes and introduce experimental features, such as global min-scale configuration, capability to handle Retry-After headers in 429 / 503 responses.
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How GitHub Does DevOps for its iOS and Android Apps
GitHub relies heavily on GitHub Actions to manage the release process for their iOS and Android apps. Using the right tools to automate the process allows the mobile team to ship a new release every week, GitHub engineer Taehun Kim explains.
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Amazon Announces AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript
Amazon recently announced the beta release of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging and custom metrics.
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Cloudflare Introduces Support for Relational Database Connections Through Workers
Cloudflare recently announced they are introducing support for relational database connections through Workers, their serverless application platform. The initial support is for Postgres and MySQL. There are still a number of challenges that the Cloudflare team are working through and there are opportunities for community contributions.
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InfoQ 2022 Events: Get Ready to Deep-Dive with Leading Software Practitioners
Our events will be both online (InfoQ Live and QCon Plus) and in-person once again with our QCon software development conferences in London (April 4-6) and San Francisco (October 24-28). Join us to find practical inspiration to help you adopt the patterns and practices this year.
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Microsoft Previews Enterprise-Grade Edge Functionality to Optimize Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps are a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps, which Microsoft manages. The company now announced a preview of Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door, enabling faster page loads, enhanced security, and increased reliability for global apps with no configuration or additional code required.
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AngularJS Officially Reached End of Life
After a grace period induced by the current global pandemic, long-term support for AngularJS has been discontinued. While AngularJS will still remain available, its repo will be archived and will receive no more additional updates, including security patches.
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Kubernetes Proceeding with Deprecation of Dockershim in Upcoming 1.24 Release
Kubernetes is proceeding with deprecation and removal of dockershim in the upcoming 1.24 release. Workflows and systems that make use of the Docker Engine as the container runtime for their Kubernetes cluster will need to migrate prior to moving to the 1.24 release. The 1.23 release will retain dockershim and will be supported for another year.
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AWS Launches a New Console Home Page to Manage Cloud Resources
Recently, AWS launched a version of the AWS Management Console. Through the home page of the console, customers can have access to each service console, and it offers a single place to access the information they need to perform their AWS related tasks.