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OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
OpenJDK has proposed a new OpenJDK Project, codenamed Galahad, to merge some of the GraalVM Native Compilation technologies into the OpenJDK codebase.
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Spring Batch 5.0 Delivers JDK 17 Baseline and Support for Native Java
VMware released Spring Batch 5.0. Baselined to Java 17 and the latest Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Batch now supports GraalVM native image, a new Observation API, Java Records, and a long list of enhancements and fixes made by more than 50 contributors.
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AirBnb Animation Engine Lottie Improves Performance by Adopting Core Animation
AirBnb has announced the fourth major iteration of its open-source vector-based animation engine Lottie. Thanks to the adoption of Core Animation, Lottie 4.0 provides significant performance improvements and reduces CPU load, says AirBnb iOS engineer Cal Stephens.
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Vite 4 Released, Replaces Babel with Faster Rust-Based SWC
The team behind the Vite frontend build tool recently released Vite 4.0, 5 months after Vite 3.0. The new version is motivated by the breaking upgrade from Rollup 2.0 to 3.0. Vite 4.0 also adds support for SWC, a Rust-based bundler that claims order-or-magnitude speed improvement over Babel.
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GitLab Adopts CLI Project to Bring GitLab to the Terminal
Open-core DevOps tool vendor GitLab has announced their adoption of glab - a command-line interface (CLI) tool for interacting with GitLab. This furthers GitLab's reach into all stages of the code writing process.
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Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Framework
The Swift team has started to work on a new open-source implementation of the Foundation framework. To be written entirely in Swift, the new Foundation aims to improve performance by getting rid of conversion costs between Objective-C and Swift as well as to provide the opportunity for modularizing and clean it up.
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Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0 and Spring for RabbitMQ 3.0 Released
VMWare has released Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0 and Spring for RabbitMQ 3.0 requiring Java 17 and Spring Framework 6.0. The projects now support the creation of native GraalVM applications and observation for timers and tracing by using the Micrometer metrics facade. Both projects now provide a Bill of Materials (BOM) in the pom.xml file to assist with dependency management.
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OpenAI Releases Conversational AI Model ChatGPT
OpenAI released ChatGPT, a conversational AI model based on their GPT-3.5 language model (LM). ChatGPT is fine-tuned using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and includes a moderation filter to block inappropriate interactions.
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Wayve's End-to-End Deep Learning Model for Self-Driving Cars
Wayve released a state-of-the-art end-to-end model for learning a world model and vehicular driving policy based on simulation data from CARLA, allowing autonomy to cars without HD maps. Wayve’s new Model-based Imitation Learning (MILE) is a machine-learning model, specifically a reinforcement learning architecture, that learns a model of the world and a driving policy during offline training.
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What's New in .NET Community Toolkit v8.1.0 Preview 1
Microsoft’s .NET Community Toolkit’s latest version, v.8.1.0, recently reached its first preview release. The release brings several new features and improvements to the toolkit: improvements to the MVVM source generator performance and the addition of custom attributes support for the ObservableProperty attribute. It also brings additional IMessenger extensions and .NET 7 and C# 11 support.
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Meta MultiRay Allows Efficiency on Large-Scale AI Models
Meta developed MultiRay, a platform that allows the cost-effective running state-of-the-art machine learning models. MultiRay allows models to run on the same input in order to share the majority of the running cost with a little addictive cost per model.
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WildFly 27 Delivers Support for JDK 17 and Jakarta EE 10
Red Hat has released WildFly 27, featuring support for JDK 11, JDK 17, Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 5.0. There are also dependency upgrades to Hibernate ORM 6.1, Hibernate Search 6.1, Infinispan 14, JGroups 5.2, RESTEasy 6.2, and Weld 5. WildFly 27 is a compatible implementation for Jakarta EE 10, having passed the TCKs in the Platform, Web and Core profiles.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 in Rampdown, JDK 21 Expert Group, Apache Tomcat, JakartaOne
This week's Java roundup for December 5th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 in Rampdown Phase One, formation of the JDK 21 expert group, point and milestone releases of: Spring Shell, Spring Tools, Quarkus, Open Liberty, GraalVM Native Build Tools, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate ORM, Eclipse Vert.x, Resilience4j, JDKMon and Ktor; and JakartaOne Livestream 2022.
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Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon
After two years of work to reverse engineer Apple Silicon GPU instruction set and to implement the kernel driver, Asahi Linux has finally got an alpha-quality release of its GPU driver that is already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games, Asahi developers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Asahi Lina say.
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Triggermesh Introduces an Open-Source AWS Eventbridge Alternative with Project Shaker
Recently TriggerMesh, a cloud-native integration platform provider, announced Shaker, a new open-source AWS EventBridge alternative project that captures, transforms, and delivers events from many out-of-the-box and custom event sources in a unified manner.