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Spring News Roundup: Milestones for Spring Boot, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith, Batch
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 16th, 2024, highlighting point and milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Java 23 Delivers Markdown Documentation, ZGC Generational Mode, Deprecate sun.misc.Unsafe
Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 12 JEPs. Three of these - Markdown Documentation Comments, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default and Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal - are final features without having gone through the preview process.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud, Spring Milestones, JBang, Micrometer, Groovy
This week's Java roundup for September 9th, 2024, features news highlighting: the September 2024 Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud and Micrometer releases, Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC1, Spring Data 2024.1.0-M1, JBang 0.118.0 and Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-10.
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Java News Roundup: Stream Gatherers, Project Loom, Hibernate Validator, LangChain4j, Clojure
This week's Java roundup for September 2nd, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, promoted to Candidate; Project Loom Build 24-loom+7-60; Hibernate Validator 9.0.0.Beta3; LangChain4j 0.34.0; and Clojure 1.12.0.
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Java News Roundup: Class-File API, GlassFish, JHipster, JReleaser, Hibernate Search, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for August 26th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 484, Class-File API, promoted to Candidate status, GlassFish 7.0.17, JHipster 8.7.0, JReleaser 1.14.0, Hibernate Search 7.1.2 and 7.2.1, and Micronaut Framework 4.6.0.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23-RC2, MicroProfile 7.0, Infinispan, Maven, JHipster
This week's Java roundup for August 19th, 2024, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 23; the release of MicroProfile 7.0; and point releases for Infinispan, Quarkus, Helidon, Maven, JHipster and Kotlin.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases for Spring Boot, Cloud, Security, Session and Spring AI
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of August 19th, 2024, highlighting: point and milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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JDK 23 and JDK 24: What We Know So Far
JDK 23, the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its second release candidate phase with a final set of 12 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into four categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, HotSpot and Java Tools. We examine JDK 23 and predict what features have, or could be, targeted for JDK 24.
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Java News Roundup: Spring 6.2-M7, Project Loom, Payara Platform, Gradle 8.10, Helidon 4.1
This week's Java roundup for August 12th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of Spring Framework 6.2.0-M7; Project Loom Build 24-loom+4-42, the August 2024 Payara Platform, Open Liberty and Piranha Cloud releases; Gradle 8.10.0; Helidon 4.1.0; and Eclipse JKube 1.17.0.
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Null-Restricted and Nullable Types for Java
Draft JEP 8303099 was recently made public. This JEP discusses Null-Restricted and Nullable Types, and aims to bring optional nullness-marking to the Java language, in a similar way to that seen in other programming languages (such as Kotlin).
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23 RC1, New HotSpot JEP, Hibernate and Tomcat Releases, GlassFish 8.0-M7
This week's Java roundup for August 5th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first release candidates of JDK 23 and Gradle 8.10; JEP 483, Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking, a new HotSpot feature; the releases of Hibernate ORM 6.6, Hibernate Search 7.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.4; multiple Apache Tomcat point and milestone releases; and GlassFish 8.0.0-M7.
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JSpecify 1.0.0 and Nullability in Java
The JSpecify collective has made its first release. The group's mission is to define common sets of annotation types for use in JVM languages, to improve static analysis and language interoperation. The first release is centred on nullability, and aligns with a recently announced Draft JEP that is exploring this issue at language level.
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Vaadin 24.4.0 Introduces Vaadin Copilot and a Unified Vaadin Platform
Vaadin, an open-source web application development platform for Java developers, released version 24.4 in June 2024. The release aims to improve and simplify the developer experience by unifying the Hilla framework with the Vaadin platform, introducing the Vaadin Copilot, and several enhancements to the design system.
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Netflix Adopts Virtual Threads: a Case Study on Performance and Pitfalls
Netflix, a long-time Java adopter, recently upgraded to Java 21. They are now harnessing new features such as generational ZGC and virtual threads to improve performance across their extensive microservices fleet. While virtual threads, designed for high-throughput concurrent applications, showed early promise, they also brought unique challenges in real-world scenarios.
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Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability
VMware released Spring Boot 3.3 on May 23, 2024, with significant performance, security, and observability improvements. These include Class Data Sharing (CDS) for faster startup and reduced memory usage, virtual thread support for websockets, enhanced security with JWT authentication auto-configuration, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) support for better supply chain security.