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Microsoft Announces 64-Bit Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft has announced that the forthcoming Visual 2022 will finally be 64-bit. VS2022 will have full support for the upcoming .NET 6, C++20, ASP.NET Blazor, and .NET MAUI. The first preview release of VS2022 is scheduled for third quarter 2021.
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OSGi Working Group Settles into New Home at Eclipse Foundation
After shipping the OSGi Core Release 8 in December, the OSGi Working Group (WG) is now incubating at the Eclipse Foundation. The OSGi WG (previously named “OSGi Alliance”) announced the move to Eclipse last October. It has already ratified the charter, created two committees and two working groups, and migrated its code repositories.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Q&A with Jean-Philippe Aumasson
While quantum computing is still in its infancy, post-quantum cryptography is a field of growing interest for companies and research institutions. InfoQ has spoken with cryptography researcher Jean-Philippe Aumasson to understand where post-quantum crypto is headed.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 featuring support for Java 16, a new preview feature that instantly renders HTML changes, and support for WSL 2. is supported and it’s possible to run applications on Docker, WSL 2, or via SSH. Various other improvements include support for Docker, Kubernetes, Kotlin, Git and others.
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Infosec Teams Expand Use of Security Tools to Address Cloud Complexity, Survey Finds
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit organization, recently published its findings on the state of cloud security practices which shows accelerating cloud adoption, but a need for more sophisticated security approaches.
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Sentry Migrates Its Frontend to Typescript - Lessons Learned
Mark Story and Priscila Oliveira recently shared lessons learned when converting Sentry’s frontend codebase (one-year effort, 100,000 lines of code) to TypeScript. The pair described a gradual conversion process in which TypeScript progressively replaced JavaScript, types were continuously refined as new TypeScript language features were released, and complex types were built incrementally.
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Cloudflare Announces the General Availability of Cloudflare Workers Unbound
Recently, Cloudflare announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudflare Workers Unbound, a platform for applications like image processing or complex algorithms that need longer execution times.
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Gradle 7.0 Released with Support for JDK 16
Gradle, the customizable open source build automation tool, has released version 7 with support for JDK 16, faster incremental builds, improved build reliability, and native support for new Macs with Apple Silicon processors. Preview features like dependency verification and support for Java Module System, introduced in previous releases, have been promoted as stable features.
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OpenJDK Proposes SecurityManager Deprecation
The OpenJDK project has proposed JEP-411 as a means of deprecating the SecurityManager. If accepted, this would be the first step in a multi-year process in which the OpenJDK Quality Outreach Campaign can guide affected projects towards alternatives before anything is removed.
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Effectful Effects - Unifying Bidirectional Communication between Software Components
Yizhou Zhang, assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, presented bidirectional algebraic effects, a new programming abstraction that subsumes current control flow patterns (e.g., exceptions, promises, generators) while supporting bidirectional control flows. With the new typed abstraction, all declared effects are handled, and no effects are accidentally handled by the wrong handler.
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Java News Roundup - Week of April 12th, 2021
This week’s Java news roundup features news from OpenJDK promoting JEP 411 to Candidate status, Kotlin 1.5.0-RC, Piranha Cloud 21.4.0, Weld CDI point releases, CloudBees releasing Jenkins X 3.0, numerous Spring project-related point releases and release candidates, and a new Atlassian JIRA command-line utility introduced by David Blevins.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of April 12th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new Visual Studio previews (Windows and Mac), updates to .NET Core 3.1 and 2.1, new releases from the Azure team, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 12th, 2021.
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Amazon Forks Elasticsearch Rebranding It as OpenSearch
Amazon recently announced the release of OpenSearch, a fork derived from versions 7.10.2 of ElasticSearch and Kibana. OpenSearch is licensed under the Apache License, V2 (ALv2). Elastic recently made adjustments to their Elastic License to simplify the usage of their code for non-commercial purposes.
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Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanner Checkov Adds Context Aware Assessments
Bridgecrew has announced the first 2.x version of Checkov. Checkov is an open-source scanner for infrastructure as code (IaC). The 2.0 release includes a re-architected backend that is now graph-based allowing for better processing of multi-resource queries. There has also been an increase in coverage with the addition of nearly 250 new policies.
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Microsoft Previews Rust For Windows
Microsoft announced the preview of Rust for Windows, which aims to enable creating Rust apps for Windows using any Windows API.