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New Platform sbomify Streamlines Making Software Inventories for SBOMs
A new platform named sbomify has been announced to address the growing challenges businesses face in managing and sharing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). The platform aims to automate and simplify SBOM processes as regulatory requirements increase across industries.
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How Airbnb Migrated from Buck to Bazel with Minimal Interference to Developers
Following in the line of other organizations migrating their build pipelines to Bazel, Airbnb provided a detailed walk-through of the process that led them to leave Buck behind and improve both build times as well as project generation and loading times.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, JEPs for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11, GraalVM
This week's Java roundup for January 15th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 455 Proposed to Target for JDK 23, JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, an updated Jakarta EE 11 release plan, GraalVM, and Oracle’s Critical Patch Update for January 2024.
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OpenSSF Adds Attestations to SBOMs to Validate How Software is Built
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has recently announced SBOMit, a tool designed to bolster Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with in-toto attestations. This development, announced under the OpenSSF Security Tooling Working Group, increases transparency and security in the software development process.
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Bazel 7 Released with New Dependency Management System and More
Recently announced at BazelCon 23, Bazel 7 materializes several new features that have been in development for multiple years, including the new modular external dependency management system Bzlmod, a new optimizing "Build without the Bytes" mode, improved multi-target build performance thanks to Project Skymeld, and more.
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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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Java News Roundup: JDK 22, Spring CVEs, Liberica JDK, JDKMon 21, Jupyter for Java, Gradle 8.5
This week's Java roundup for November 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Jakarta Data 1.0-M2, JNoSQL 1.0.3, LibericaJDK, Spring CVEs, Spring Shell 3.2.0-RC1, Quarkus 3.6, Open Liberty 23.0.12-beta, Helidon 4.0.1, Hibernate Reactive 2.2, Hibernate Search 7.1-A1, Grails 5.3.4, Groovy 5.0.0-A3, Camel Quarkus 3.6, Maven 3.9.6, JDKMon 21, PrimeFaces 12.0.7, Jupyter for Java and Gradle 8.5.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, JEPs for JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for October 23rd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Jakarta Data 1.0-M1, GraalVM 21.0.1, Spring 6.1-RC2, Spring Modulith 1.1-RC1, Spring Vault 3.1-RC1, Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, Quarkus 3.5, Liberica NIK 22.3.4, Hibernate ORM 6.4-CR1, Hibernate Search 7.0-CR1, Maven 4.0.0-alpha8, Camel 4.0.2, Camel Quarkus 3.5, JHipster Lite 0.46 and JDKMonitor.
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How Spotify Transitioned to Bazel to Build their iOS App
After three years experimenting with Bazel, in 2020 Spotify decided to adopt it as their official build system for the Spotify iOS app. Thanks to this, they could reduce build times to a fourth, explains Spotify engineer Patrick Balestra.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Azul, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco, Devoxx Belgium
This week's Java roundup for October 2nd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Azul Code Inventory, Spring Shell 3.1.4, 3.0.8 and 2.1.13, JNoSQL 1.0.2, Quarkus 3.4.2, Micronaut 4.1.3, Hibernate Search 6.2.2, PrimeFaces 12.0.6, 11.0.12, 10.0.19 and 8.0.24, Maven 3.9.5, Camel 3.20.7, Tomcat Native 1.2.39, Testcontainers 1.19.1, JBang 0.111.0, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco and Devoxx Belgium.
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Go 1.21 Toolchain is Now Reproducible to Help Safeguard from Supply-Chain Attacks
Go 1.21 toolchain is the first Go toolchain to be perfectly reproducible. This makes it possible to reduce the risk that a malicious actor can tamper with the output binaries, explains Google engineer Russ Cox, to carry through a supply chain attack.
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Java News Roundup: Liberica JDK Performance Edition, GraalVM JDK 21 Builds, Open Liberty, Quarkus
This week's Java roundup for July 31st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.7, GraalVM JDK 21 Developer Builds, Liberica JDK Performance Edition, JNoSQL 1.0.1, Spring Tools 4.19.1, Open Liberty 23.0.0.8-beta and 23.0.0.7, Micronaut 4.0.3, Quarkus 3.2.3 and 2.16.9, Apache Camel 4.0.0-RC2, JHipster Lite 0.40, Ktor 2.3.3, Maven 3.9.4 and Gradle 8.3-RC3.
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Java News Roundup: Micronaut 4.0, Payara Platform, Spring Web Flow 3.0, JetBrains AI Assistant
This week's Java roundup for July 10th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, Spring Web Flow 3.0, Micronaut 4.0, Payara Platform, point and milestone releases of: Spring projects, Open Liberty, Helidon, Hibernate Reactive, Tomcat, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Piranha, Project Reactor, JHipster, JHipster Lite, Yupiik Fusion, Maven and Gradle; and AI Assistant in JetBrains IDEs.
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Java News Roundup: Open Liberty InstantOn and Liberty Tools, Gradle 8.2, Spring Cloud, GlassFish
This week's Java roundup for June 26th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, point releases and release candidates for Spring Cloud, Spring Shell, GlassFish, Micronaut, Quarkus, Open Liberty, Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Search, Apache Groovy, Apache Camel, Maven, JHipster Lite, JReleaser, JobRunr, RefactorFirst, OpenXava, Resilience4j, Failsafe, Yupiik Fusion and Gradle.
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Ruiz and Almiray at Devoxx UK: Lessons on How to Escape the Maven Dependency Hell
During their Devoxx UK talk Ixchel Ruiz, developer advocate at JFrog, and Andres Almiray, principal product manager at Oracle, presented multiple “maven puzzlers" together with their potential solutions to escaping the Apache Maven dependencies hell. In an effort to be as comprehensive as possible, they spoke about direct, transient and even inherited dependencies from parent POMs.