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Java News Roundup: TomEE 10, Struts 7, Payara Platform, GlassFish, Commonhaus Foundation, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for December 16th, 2024, features news highlighting: GA releases of Apache TomEE 10.0.0 and Apache Struts 7.0.0; the December 2024 release of the Payara Platform, GlassFish 8.0.0-M9, Infinispan 15.1.0, Gradle 8.12.0, and SlateDB and Debezium join the Commonhaus Foundation.
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JetBrains' Webstorm IDE for JavaScript Development Now Free for Non-Commercial Purposes
JetBrains' IDE for JavaScript is now free for non-commercial use. Webstorm thus joins RustRover (Rust IDE) and Aqua (test automation IDE) to the list of JetBrain IDEs available under a non-commercial licensing model. Non-commercial free license users must agree to usage data collection to enjoy the same features as those with paid subscriptions, including AI-powered code completion.
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Spring News Roundup: Delivering Point Releases of Boot, Security, Authorization Server, Session
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of December 16th, 2024, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka, Spring for Apache Pulsar and Spring Shell.
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Google Willow Sets New Quantum Supremacy Milestone
Google has announced its new 105-qubit superconducting chip, code-named Willow, which solved a quantum supremacy experiment that would take at least 300 million years to simulate on a classical computer. More importantly, the chip shows how quantum hardware may achieve fault tolerance in such a way to seemingly unleash its scalability.
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Redis Creator 'antirez' Returns: Can He Shift Momentum away from Valkey?
After over four years away, Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo recently announced his return to Redis. In what has been a challenging year for the company behind the source-available in-memory NoSQL database, the announcement has sparked enthusiasm and stirred much discussion within the Redis community.
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GitHub Launches Free Copilot Plan for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Users
GitHub has introduced a new free plan for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, offering 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month without requiring a subscription or payment. The update integrates Copilot as a core feature in the editor, with new tools like Copilot Edits, Custom Instructions, and terminal chat. A similar free plan is also available for Visual Studio users.
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Azure AI Agent Service in Public Preview: Automation of Routine Tasks
Unveiling at Ignite, Microsoft's Azure AI Agent Service empowers developers to build and scale AI agents seamlessly. With secure integration, flexible use cases, and support for multiple frameworks, it automates workflows across platforms like Teams and Excel. Experience the future of business automation—innovate efficiently with Azure AI today!
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New MSSQL Extension for VS Code Promises Enhanced Developer Productivity
Microsoft enhances Visual Studio Code's MSSQL extension with comprehensive updates, introducing improved database connection, object exploration, and query analysis tools. The new version offers advanced UI features, streamlined table design, enhanced performance visualization, and expanded export capabilities for developers working with Azure SQL and SQL Server databases.
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PydanticAI: a New Python Framework for Streamlined Generative AI Development
The team behind Pydantic, widely used for data validation in Python, has announced the release of PydanticAI, a Python-based agent framework designed to ease the development of production-ready Generative AI applications. Positioned as a potential competitor to LangChain, PydanticAI introduces a type-safe, model-agnostic approach inspired by the design principles of FastAPI.
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Key Takeaways from QCon & InfoQ Dev Summits with a Look ahead to 2025 Conferences
As we reflect on 2024, one thing is clear: senior developers, architects, and team leaders face challenges that benefit from real-world insights shared by other senior practitioners. This year, the InfoQ Dev Summits in Boston and Munich, and the QCon conferences in London and San Francisco provided curated topics and talks from software practitioners working through demanding challenges.
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Challenges of Creating iOS App Extensions at Lyft
In a recent article, Lyft engineers Artur Stepaniuk and Max Husar described how Lyft handles the complexity of creating an app extension for their iOS app without breaking the tight RAM and binary size constraints set by Apple nor impair user experience.
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OpenAI Releases Sora and Full Version of O1 Reasoning Model with Fine-Tuning
OpenAI has unveiled its advanced o1 reasoning model and the video generation model Sora, enhancing complex reasoning and video creation capabilities. Sora produces high-quality videos using innovative diffusion techniques, while o1 excels in nuanced reasoning and safety. Together, they signal a transformative leap in AI, bridging creativity and rigorous reasoning.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography in Java
A pair of new JEPs arriving in Java 24 provide an initial Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) capability in Java.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework, WildFly, Hibernate, EclipseStore, Piranha Cloud
This week's Java roundup for December 9th, 2024 features news highlighting: point releases for the Spring Framework; the first beta release of WildFly 35; Hibernate ORM 7.0.0.Beta3, Hibernate Reactive 3.0.0.Beta1 and Hibernate Validator 9.0.0.RC1; and the release of EclipseStore 2.1 and Piranha Cloud 24.12.0.
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Google AI Agent Jules Aims at Helping Developers with Their GitHub-Based Workflows
Part of Gemini 2.0, Google has launched its new AI-based coding assistant in closed preview. Dubbed "Jules", the assistant aims at helping developers to work with Python and JavaScript issues and pull requests, handle bug fixes, and other related tasks.