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Kotlin 1.6.0 Released
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.6.0 which ships with new language features, an improved standard library, and other new functionalities such as exhaustive when statements, a new experimental memory manager for Kotlin/Native, and Kover to measure code coverage.
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Java News Roundup: IntelliJ IDEA, JEP 421, Groovy, Open Liberty, Hibernate ORM, Eclipse Collections
This week's Java roundup for November 29th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+7-288, multiple Spring project point releases, Quarkus 2.5.1.Final, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0-Beta2, Eclipse Mojarra 2.3.17, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.8, Groovy 4.0.0-RC1, Eclipse Collections 11.0.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3, and JReleaser 0.9.0.
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JakartaOne Livestream 2021 Will Highlight Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 5.0
The third annual JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference will go live on December 7th, 2021, with the first of 12 one-hour sessions starting at 6:00am EST preceded by a welcome reception by Tanja Obradovic and Ivar Grimstad at 5:45am EST. Focused primarily on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, these sessions include keynotes and 15-minute theme slots delivered by a host of Java luminaries.
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JetBrains Launches Lightweight IDE Fleet, Cloud Workspaces for IntelliJ
Fleet is JetBrains' attempt to provide a polyglot, lightweight IDE, including support for remote workspaces. Additionally, the latest release of IntelliJ also brings support for remote development to JetBrains IDEs.
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Announcing Cryostat 2.0: JDK Flight Recorder for Containers
Cryostat, a container-native JVM application developed by Red Hat, provides an API for monitoring and profiling Java containers using Java Flight Recorder (JFR). Cryostat brings JFR to container age allowing analysis and profiling of multiple JVMs directly from a central hub.
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Java News Roundup: Micronaut 3.2, Quarkus 2.5, JDK 18, Spring HATEOAS 1.4, JKDMon 17.0.14
It was a relatively quiet news week for the November 22nd, 2021 edition of the Java roundup featuring news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+6-282, Spring HATEOAS 1.4, Micronaut 3.2, Quarkus 2.5.0, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.5.0 and JDKMon 17.0.14.
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Microsoft Continues Its Embrace of Java by Joining JCP
Microsoft joined the Java Community Process (JCP), which governs the Java language evolution. This continues Microsoft's embrace of Java, such as having its own OpenJDK distribution and constantly improving Java support in Visual Studio Code. Microsoft is also a strategic member of both the Eclipse Foundation and the Eclipse Working Group for Adoptium. Adoptium was formerly known as AdoptOpenJDK.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 18, Spring Updates, Payara Platform, Kotlin 1.6
This week's Java roundup for November 15th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Project Loom, numerous point releases on Spring projects, MicroProfile 5.0-RC2, Payara Platform, a proposed new Jakarta EE specification, JHipster 7.4.0, TornadoVM 0.12, Apache Camel K 1.7 and Kotlin 1.6.0.
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Pants Build System Adds Support for Java, Scala, and Go
In its upcoming release, now available to early adopters, build system Pants adds Java, Scala, and Go to previously supported Python. InfoQ has spoken with Benjy Weinberger, one of the creator of Pants alongside John Sirois, and currently CEO of Toolchain, Pants' main sponsor.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 Release Schedule, Spring Data 2021.1.0, Apple Open-Sources GCGC
This week's Java roundup for November 8th, 2021, features news from JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+4-273, point releases for Spring Framework and Spring Data, Quarkus 2.4.2.Final, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.0.Final, Piranha 21.11.0, Groovy 4.0.0-beta-2, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.4.0.Final, Neo4J Migrations 1.0.0, Apple open-sources GCGC, and Gluon JavaFX 17.0.2-ea+2 and JavaFX 18-ea+6.
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Hibernate Releases Version 1.0 of Reactive API
Hibernate Reactive 1.0 is the first stable version of the reactive API for the popular Hibernate ORM, supporting non-blocking database drivers and a reactive style of interaction with the database.
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Java News Roundup: Microsoft Joins JCP, Helidon 2.4.0, OpenJDK and JDK 18 Updates
This week's Java roundup for November 1st, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Helidon 2.4.0, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12-beta, point releases for Spring Cloud and its related subprojects, Quarkus 2.4.1.Final, Hibernate Reactive 1.0.1, WildFly 25.0.1 and JReleaser 0.8.0.
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Red Hat Releases Language Support for Java Plugin 1.0 for VSCode
Red Hat has released version 1.0 of Language support for Java on VSCode that supports Java 17, displaying type hierarchies and improved performance. The source lookup feature has been improved and now supports unmanaged projects and is able to display sources of any library available on Maven central. This release also contains new code actions and support for Gradle files written in Kotlin.
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GraalVM 21.3 Supports Java 17
Oracle Labs released GraalVM 21.3, featuring support for Java 17 and JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) for low-overhead production profiling of native Java executables. Compared to version 21.1 from April 2021, this release creates 14% smaller native executables for Spring PetClinic JDBC with 20% less build time. The release runs applications faster and begins to support the Java Platform Module System.
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Java News Roundup: Hibernate Reactive 1.0, Spring Updates, OpenJDK, Red Hat Introduces Cryostat 2.0
This week's Java roundup for October 25th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, numerous updates on Spring projects, MicroStream 6.0, Quarkus 2.4.0, Hibernate Reactive 1.0, Open Liberty 21.0.0.11, Eclipse Vert.x 4.2.0, Red Hat introduces Cryostat 2.0, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.7.1, Liberica Native Image Kit 21.3 and JDKMon 17.0.7.