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A First Look at Java 10 Release Candidate 1
Scheduled for a GA release on March 20, 2018, Java 10 RC1 is now available for the Java community. This will be the first upgrade that will follow Oracle’s new six-month release cycle. The most intriguing and anticipated feature in Java 10 is local-variable type inference that introduces the new reserved type name, var.
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Google ARCore Hits 1.0, Runs on More Devices
Following its preview announcement, Google is now releasing ARCore 1.0, which greatly extends the set of supported devices.
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Webpack 4.0 Release Brings Simplified Configuration, WebAssembly Support, and Big Performance Boost
Webpack, the most popular JavaScript module bundler, released version 4.0 on Sunday, February 25. The version contains a complete rewrite of the plugin system, new first class module types including support for WebAssembly, simplified configuration options, and much more. The update also comes with big performance improvements, with reports of anywhere from 60% to 98% reduction in build time.
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Ember.js Releases Version 3.0
Ember’s major releases contain no new functionality, and 3.0 is no different. The main benefit of the Ember 3.0 release is the removal of previously deprecated features, clearing the path for new functionality and performance improvements.
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Windows.Forms Comes to 64-bit Mac OS X
Mono has long provided a pure C# implementation of Windows.Forms for MacOS, Linux, and Windows. Unfortunately with Mono's move to 64-bit by default, the MacOS support for Windows.Forms has suffered. Thanks to a community contribution, Miguel de Icaza is now powering ahead with a new, 64-bit Carbon based version of Windows.Forms.
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EF Core 2.1 Roadmap: Views, Group By, and Lazy Loading
Entity Framework Core continues to make progress towards catching up with the original Entity Framework. On the roadmap for EF Core 2.1 are features such as views, group by, and lazy loading.
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Chef Enhances Cloud Security Automation in InSpec 2.0
Continuous automation vendor, Chef, has announced the availability of InSpec 2.0, a new version of Chef’s free open source tool that enables DevOps and cross-functional application, infrastructure and security teams to express security and compliance rules as code and assess and remediate compliance issues through the entire software delivery life cycle.
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Preview of New Features in MySQL 8
MySQL is gearing up for its 8th version, expected to be released in 2018. A full 28 months since the first general release for MySQL 5.7.9, there have already been five release candidates for MySQL 8, ranging from 8.0.0 to 8.0.4. In this article we explore the best features that MySQL 8 will bring to developers when it gets a GA release.
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Avalonia Beta 1 Brings Many Improvements over WPF
Avalonia describes itself as a “cross platform .NET UI framework inspired by WPF, with XAML, data binding, lookless controls and much more." Having just reached its first public beta, it is already showing some interesting improvements over the venerable WPF version of XAML.
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Update on the “Fluent UI” Or Ribbon Design
Two weeks ago we reported on the “fluent UI”, or ribbon design, that Microsoft sued Corel over. Since then we have been able to get an update from Microsoft.
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AxonDB, a New Implementation of an Event Store
AxonDB is a new data storage purpose-built for event sourcing with support for transactions and pushed-based event publishing that recently was released by AxonIQ, the company behind the Axon Framework. To make sure performance is constant, the architecture is specifically targeting reading data — according to AxonIQ the performance is stable even with huge amounts of events stored.
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Shippable Provides New DevOps Analytics Capabilities
Shippable, a continuous integration and DevOps automation platform, has announced an analytics add-on for the measurement of DevOps processes such as development velocity for components or teams or code quality trends over time, with filters for date ranges, components/teams and anomalies in the workflow.
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Microsoft Opens Its Quantum Development Kit to macOS and Linux
After making its Quantum Development Kit available to developers last December, Microsoft is now announcing its first major update, including support for macOS and Linux, interoperability with Python, and more.
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Handling Traffic Spikes from Global Events at Facebook Live
Facebook Live’s engineers talked about how they scale their systems to handle traffic from both predicted and unpredicted events. While the latter is handled by their global distributed architecture, the former involves careful advance planning and load testing.
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Json.NET No Longer Has over 120 Dependencies
Json.NET, the official JSON parsing and serialization library for .NET, required a whopping 122 packages on .NET Standard 1.3. With the release of Json.NET 11 for .NET Standard 2.0, that has dropped to 0.