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MySQL Changes Versioning Model, Adds Innovation and LTS Releases
Oracle recently announced a change in the versioning model for MySQL, introducing the MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases. The first innovation release is MySQL 8.1.0 , which includes InnoDB cluster read replicas.
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LocalStack 2.0: Open-Source Tool for Local Cloud Development Gets Significant Updates
The company LocalStack recently announced the general availability of LocalStack 2.0, an open-source tool for the local development and testing of cloud applications.
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CNCF Incubating Project Update Focuses on Adoption and Releases at KubeCon EU
As part of the KubeCon EU keynotes, the CNCF provided a series of project updates underlying the notable changes in the ecosystem. The information provided focused on the ongoing initiatives, adoption rate, and notable publications or releases.
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LinkedIn Open Sources Greykite, a Python-based Forecasting Library
LinkedIn open sourced Greykite, a Python library that promises to provide accurate future forecasts in an interpretable, allowing visualizations of the trend, seasonality, and other effects. Built to be flexible, intuitive and fast, it performed 4 times better than FB’s prophet, providing more accurate results for 1-day and 7-day forecasts.
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Rust 1.46.0 Released
The latest Rust stable release, 1.46.0, extends the number of core language constructs that are allowed in const fn. Also, a couple of features are stabilised.
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Microsoft Open Sources Cross-platform Serialization Library – Bond
Last month, without any official announcement, Microsoft open sourced Bond - a performant serialization system developed and deployed across dozens of mission-critical, high-scale infrastructure projects internally at Microsoft.
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Ruby 2.2.0 Released, Featuring Incremental and Symbol GC
Ruby 2.2.0, released on December 25th, is the gift rubyists got for Christmas. Highlights include several garbage collection (GC) improvements. There is a new incremental GC algorithm and symbols are now garbage collectable. Ruby also got a collection of minor improvements on the core classes and its standard library.
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Netflix Releases Open Source Message Security Layer
Netflix have announced the release of the Message Security Layer protocol (MSL), which they describe as ‘A Modern Take on Securing Communication’. The project is available on github under the Apache 2.0 license, with implementations in Java and JavaScript.
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ElasticSearch Gets Better Aggregation, Adds Groovy for Scripting
ElasticSearch 1.3.0 has been released. Based on Lucene 4.9, it comes with better aggregation features, some security and scripting improvements, several index performance improvements and more.
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The Release Process Used by Mozilla for Firefox
This article presents the release process used by Mozilla for their browser.
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Noda Time Gets Faster, Adds Persian and Hebrew Calendar Support
Noda Time v 1.3 has been released with several new features such as support for Persian and Hebrew Calendars, performance improvements for parsing and formatting and several API additions.
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Dartium Comes To Android
Dart 1.5 released last week with a focus on mobile development. This includes a version of Dartium that works on Android along with editor improvements to support debugging of mobile web apps built using Dart.
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Google's Go Gets Faster
Go 1.3 has been released after almost 3 months of beta. The new version has no language changes over 1.2, but comes with several performance improvements, support for running command-line programs under Native-Client and several other enhancements.
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MongoDB 2.6 Release - An Interview With Kelly Stirman
MongoDB needs no introduction for NoSQL users. Kelly Stirman, Director of Product Marketing at MongoDB is answering questions about the latest stable 2.6 release. Storage fragmentation, index intersection, full text search and MongoDB in enterprise are discussed. Finally, we have more info about one of the most watched and voted feature requests at MongoDB jira tracker, collection level locking.
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Mono JIT, GC Get Better
Mono 3.2.7 is out, with a lot of new features such as an improved JIT, new interpreter for LINQ, use of native instructions for 64 bits, and more.