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Java News Roundup: JEP 423, Quarkus 2.7.0, Micronaut Serialization, JReleaser Early-Access
This week's Java roundup for January 31st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK (JEP 423), JDK 18, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+3-89, Spring Framework updates, Quarkus 2.7.0.Final, a new Micronaut Serialization module, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.7.0, Apache Camel 3.15.0, a second JReleaser early-access build, JobRunr versions 4.0.7 and 4.0.8, and Failsafe 3.2.
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Java News Roundup: Loom and Panama Updates, Groovy 4.0, GraalVM 22.0 CE, Jakarta EE RPC
This week's Java roundup for January 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Projects Loom and Panama, Jakarta EE, Groovy 4.0, Spring Framework updates, Micronaut 3.3.0, GraalVM 22.0 CE, Liberica NIK, MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators 3.0-RC1, Hibernate updates, JHipster 7.6, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.2, JReleaser early-access, Apache Camel and Camel K, and Foojay.io at FOSDEM.
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Apple Open Sources GCGC: a Tool to Analyze Java GC Logs
Apple has open-sourced GCGC, a tool for Java Garbage Collector (GC) logs visualization based on Python 3 and pandas. GCGC uses a Jupyter notebook to analyze and visualize GC log files.
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What's New in MicroProfile 5.0
Delivered under the auspices of the MicroProfile Working Group and five months after the release of MicroProfile 4.1, the anticipated release of MicroProfile 5.0 was made available to the Java community. This new release features alignment with Jakarta EE 9.1 and updates to all eight community-developed core APIs and one standalone API.
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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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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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Java News Roundup: Java Plans for 2022, Spring Framework 6.0-M2, Introducing Eclipse Jifa
This week's Java roundup for January 10th, 2022, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, Java’s plans for 2022 as presented by Nicolai Parlog, point releases for Spring Framework and Spring Data, Quarkus 2.6.2, Micronaut 3.2.5 and 3.2.6, Piranha 22.1.0, JobRunr 4.0.6, introducing Eclipse Jifa, Micrometer Metrics 2.0.0-M1, Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0-M1 and the July - December 2021 Foojay Status Report.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18, JDK 19, Groovy DSL for Spring Integration, JHipster, Micronaut Foundation
It was another relatively quiet week for the January 3rd, 2022 edition of the Java news roundup featuring build updates to JDK 18 and JDK 19, VMware publishing CVE-2021-22060 as a follow up to CVE-2021-22096, a new Groovy DSL for Spring Integration, Helidon 2.4.1, Hibernate Search versions 6.0.8 and 6.1.0.Beta2, JHipster 7.5.0, JReleaser 0.10.0 and Gradle having joined the Micronaut Foundation.
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Java News Roundup: State of Project Valhalla by Brian Goetz, GlassFish 7.0-M1 and Project Loom Lab
It was very quiet for the week of December 27th, 2021, but InfoQ found a few news items of interest that include: the “State of Project Valhalla,” a three-part blog series written by Brian Goetz; GlassFish 7.0.0-M1; Project Loom Lab, a new project created by Nicolai Parlog; an update of the Jakarta EE Tutorial to Jakarta EE 9.1; Apache Camel 3.11.5; and JDKMon 17.0.21.
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Google Protocol Buffers Support Idiomatic Kotlin Bindings
Google added support for Kotlin to its open source Protocol Buffers project, which is able to translate a proto definition into an idiomatic Domain Specific Language (DSL) leveraging Kotlin advanced syntax features.
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End of Year Learnings from Minecraft’s Migration to JDK 16 and Q&A with the Mojang Team
In an effort to obtain a smoother transition towards JDK 17, Minecraft decided to upgrade to JDK 16 first just months before Java's LTS release in September 2021. The changes point towards possible performance gains just by running JDK 17 out-of-the-box. InfoQ reached out to the Mojang team with further questions on their experience running JDK 16 in production.
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Java News Roundup: More Log4Shell Statements, Spring and Quarkus Updates, New Value Objects JEP
This week's Java roundup for December 20th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK with a new draft on value objects, JDK 18, JDK 19, Project Loom, additional statements from vendors on Log4Shell, numerous Spring and Quarkus updates, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0-M3, point releases from Apache Camel and Camel Quarkus, Apache Tika 2.2.1 and GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.9.
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Migrating Neo4j Graph Schemas with Neo4j Migrations
Neo4j Labs has released Neo4j Migrations, a database migration and refactoring tool that offers version control for relational databases. Inspired by FlywayDB, the tool supports migrations based on Cypher statements or Java. Triggering the migrations is possible via the CLI, Maven plugin, or a Spring Boot starter.
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MicroStream 6.0 Supports JDK 17, Spring Boot and Helidon
MicroStream, the JVM data storage engine providing in-memory storage to fully or partially persist and restore Java object graphs, has released version 6.0 featuring added support for Java 17, Spring Boot integration, Deep-copy utility and the elimination of various bugs.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 with New Remote Development Feature
IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 is the last release for 2021 and now includes support for Groovy 4 and Selenium 4. The release contains bug fixes, generic improvements and more specific improvements for languages and tools like Java, Kotlin, Docker and Kubernetes. This version introduces remote development as a beta feature, to use a remote machine as if it was a local machine.