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Kotlin Asynchronous Framework, Ktor 2.0, Released with New Plugins Feature
Ktor 2.0, the Kotlin framework to create asynchronous client and server applications, has been released with new features and breaking changes.
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Java News Roundup: Virtual Threads, JReleaser 1.0, Project Loom, Vendor Statements on Spring4Shell
This week's Java roundup for April 4th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 425, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+5-429, Jakarta EE Starter utility, Spring milestone and point releases, Payara and JetBrains statements on Spring4Shell, JReleaser 1.0, Helidon 2.5.0, JHipster 7.8.1, Hibernate Search 6.1.4, Kotlin 1.6.20, and JDKMon 17.0.24.
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Kotlin 1.6.20 Brings Definitely Non-Nullable Types, Standalone Android Executables, and More
Kotlin 1.6.20 brings many new features, including standalone Android executables, extended context receivers, native parallel compilation, definitely non-nullable types, and much more.
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Dropbox Makes the Android App Faster and More Reliable: Swaps C++ Code for a Native Approach
Dropbox recently published how it made the camera upload process for Android faster and more reliable. Dropbox engineers removed shared Android and iOS C++ code and replaced it with a platform-native Kotlin implementation. The engineers are pleased with the decision to rewrite the process, stating that error rates went down and upload performance greatly improved.
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Kotlin 1.6.20 Preview Features Context Receivers and Performance Improvements
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, a preview version of the upcoming GA release that introduces context receivers, several performance improvement options to reduce compilation time and a concurrent garbage collector.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform 2022 Roadmap, OpenJDK Drafts, Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, Gradle 7.4
This week's Java roundup for February 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, JSR 381 approved by the JCP, Payara Platform 2022 roadmap, Quarkus 2.7.1, Helidon 2.4.2, Micronaut 3.3.1, Hibernate Search 6.1.1, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.3.Final, JReleaser Early-Access, Failsafe 3.2.1, Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, Gradle 7.4, Apache Tika 2.3.0 and end-of-life for Apache Tika 1.x release train.
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How Slack Modernized its Mobile Apps and Went Full Swift on iOS
Slack succeeded in the effort to bring their iOS and Android apps up-to-date and adopt new design trends. Among other things, this enabled a full switch to Swift for iOS and breaking the existing monoliths.
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AWS Finally Gets Official SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift
Previewed at Re:invent, the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift provide idiomatic wrappers around AWS APIs that will allow developers to interact with AWS services in a more familiar and consistent way.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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JetBrains Debuts New Kotlin Compiler K2, Kotlin for WebAssembly, and More
At its recent Kotlin 2021 Premier event, JetBrains made a number of major announcements, including K2, the new, faster Kotlin compiler, support for WebAssembly, the Kotlin Symbol Processor, a new code coverage plugin, and improved static analysis.
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Java News Roundup: Grails 5.0, Spring Framework, Hibernate, WildFly and the Kotlin Multik Library
This week's Java roundup for October 11th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Spring Framework, Grails 5.0, Micronaut 3.1, Helidon 2.3.4, point and GA releases of Hibernate ORM and Reactive, updates related to the recent GA release of WildFly 25, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.6, Apache Camel 3.11.3, Piranha 21.10.0 and JetBrains introducing the Multik multidimensional array library.