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Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 2: .NET MAUI, C++, Remote Linux Unit Testing, Teams Toolkit and More
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2, the last release concluding development efforts for 2023. This update builds upon the foundation provided by Preview 1 in November. Preview 2 brings improvements and new features regarding C++, .NET MAUI, Remote Linux Unit Testing, Teams Toolkit and many more.
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Quarkus 3.7 Will Require Java 17
Quarkus 3.7, planned for release in January 2024, will require Java 17 as the minimal JDK version to build and run applications. One of the reasons is the fact that the OpenJDK community stopped active support for Java 11 in September 2023. Next to that, Quarkus dependencies are also upgrading their baseline to Java 17.
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Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.1, Piranha Cloud 23.12, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Tomcat Releases
This week's Java roundup for December 11th, 2023, features news highlighting: OpenJDK early access releases, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Infinispan 15.0.0-Dev06, JHipster 8.1.0, Piranha 23.12.0, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M15, 10.1.17, 9.0.84 and 8.5.97 and the debut of the Payara Virtual Conference.
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Apple Open-sources Apple Silicon-Optimized Machine Learning Framework MLX
Apple's MLX combines familiar APIs, composable function transformations, and lazy computation to create a machine learning framework inspired by NumPy and PyTorch that is optimized for Apple Silicon. Implemented in Python and C++, the framework aims to provide a user-friendly and efficient solution to train and deploy machine learning models on Apple Silicon.
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Microsoft Released ML.NET 3.0: Deep Learning and Data Processing Improvements
ML.NET version 3.0 has been officially released, introducing new features and enhancements. Notably, deep learning capabilities have been significantly expanded with advancements in Object Detection, Named Entity Recognition, and Question Answering and more.
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Microsoft Announces Copilot for Azure, an AI Assistant for IT Professionals
Microsoft has introduced Copilot for Azure, an AI-based tool designed to enhance the management and operation of cloud infrastructure and services. It leverages the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with Azure's Resource Model to provide a comprehensive understanding and handling of Azure's functionalities, spanning from cloud services to edge technology.
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JEP 423: Introducing Region Pinning to G1 Garbage Collector in OpenJDK
After its review concluded, JEP 423, Region Pinning for G1, has been Integrated into JDK 22. This JEP proposes to reduce GC latency by implementing region pinning for the G1 garbage collector. This will extend G1 so that arbitrary regions may be pinned during both major and minor collection operations, so that disabling the garbage collection process may be avoided while implementing JNI.
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Spring Boot 3.2 Delivers Support for Virtual Threads and Modern RestClient and JdbcClient
The Spring Boot team released Spring Boot 3.2 in November 2023. This latest release is packed with features, the most noteworthy of which is the support for Virtual Threads and Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). Other features include SSL Bundle reloading, Rest Client and JDBC Client interface support, observability improvements, and many others.
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Meta and IBM Lead Formation of AI Alliance to Drive Open-Source Innovation
A new consortium, led by Meta and IBM, has been formed to support open-source AI. The AI Alliance comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic, with the goal of collaboratively developing tools and programs to facilitate open development.
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Stream API Evolution: a Closer Look at JEP 461's Stream Gatherers
After its review concluded, JEP 461, Stream Gatherers (Preview), has been completed for JDK 22. This JEP proposes to enhance the Stream API to support custom intermediate operations. "This will allow stream pipelines to transform data in ways that are not easily achievable with the existing built-in intermediate operations."
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JetBrains Launches AI Assistant Integrated in its 2023.3 Release IDEs
JetBrains refreshes all of its IDEs in the last release of the year and promotes its integrated AI Assistant out of preview into general availability for paying customers. Besides its strong integration with the IDEs, JetBrains AI Assistant tries to stand out thanks to its support for multiple LLMs.
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Microsoft's Orca 2 LLM Outperforms Models That Are 10x Larger
Microsoft Research released its Orca 2 LLM, a fine-tuned version of Llama 2 that performs as well as or better than models that contain 10x the number of parameters. Orca 2 uses a synthetic training dataset and a new technique called Prompt Erasure to achieve this performance.
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Amazon ElastiCache Serverless: a New Option for Scaling Cache Capacity Instantly
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon ElastiCache Serverless, a new serverless option allowing users to quickly create a cache and instant scale capacity based on application traffic patterns. In addition, the serverless option is compatible with open-source caching solutions Redis and Memcached.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 in Rampdown, JDK 23 Expert Group, Spring Cloud 2023.0, TornadoVM 1.0
This week's Java roundup for December 4th, 2023, features news highlighting: JDK 22 having moved to Rampdown Phase One; formation of the JDK 23 expert group; JEP 464, Scope Values (Second Preview) targeted for JDK 22; Spring Cloud 2023.0.0; TornadoVM 1.0.0; and JHipster Lite 1.0.0.
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Apache Pinot 1.0 Provides a Realtime Distributed OLAP Datastore
Apache Pinot is an open source column-oriented distributed data store written in Java. Pinot is designed to use Online Analytical processing (OLAP) in order to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries with low latency.