Here is the quite subjective selection of smaller messages of the past few days:
- The development team behind the Application Server WildFly now has den Release-Plan released for the software by January 2024. After a temporary departure from the development model in early 2022, which produced a new release every three months to make the transition to Jakarta EE 10, the developers now want to return to this rotation
- The free JavaScript library jQuery has the Version 3.7.0 reached. It also offers a new method along with bug fixes and performance improvements. In addition, jQuery no longer depends on this release Sizzle as a separate project, but has integrated its code directly into the jQuery core.
- The makers behind the Internet platform Stack Overflow have now started their annual survey among developers again. You can now Participate in the 2023 Delevoper Survey online. The survey is divided into seven sections, whereby the majority of the questions should be optional and the complete answer should only take 15 minutes.
- The Apache Lucene library for search engines, written in Java, is available in version 9.6.0 ready. According to the development team, this version includes numerous bug fixes, optimizations and improvements. In addition to introducing a new
KeywordFieldfor easy and efficient filtering and sorting, support for the Java 20 Foreign Memory API is now available, among other things. - The flat file CMS Statamic was in version 4 published. This version should focus on two things in particular: The control panel should bring a better user experience and the development team has also modernized the code base, according to their own statements.
- Leaning Technologies will probably not finalize the CheerpJ 3.0 software until summer 2023 as an official release publish. However, the developers behind this JVM replacement in HTML5 and WebAssembly for running Java applications and applets on browsers are already providing a “sufficiently stable version” of this software in a JavaFiddle-Demo ready and explain their possibilities.
- Google has the results on the Go blog the survey of Go developers published, which was carried out in the first quarter of 2023. Findings from this survey include the insight that newcomers to Go are particularly interested in web development and that dependency management and versioning have emerged as the biggest challenges for maintainers of open source Go modules .
- Microsoft has that regular update for Java in Visual Studio Code published. Among the innovations, the team behind this software counts improvements in debugging, profile support in the Maven extension, a new Java Project Explorer interface and improved visualization in the Spring Boot Dashboard.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new open-source projects that the site says will also address concerns about software supply chain security. This includes the new Fuzzing-Tool Snapchange and a recently introduced language and SDK namens Cedar for defining authorizations in the form of guidelines. These should describe who should have access to what. At the same time, the language also represents a specification for evaluating these guidelines.
- Epic Games has the availability of their own Unreal Engine in der Version 5.2 announced. New in this version is the Substrates function, which is intended to allow developers to create individual materials for their objects, which they can use in real-time applications and games or for linear content creation. Additional features and improvements have also been added to the virtual production toolset to give filmmakers more creative options.
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