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Analyzing Git Clone Vulnerability
A new Git version, 2.30.2, fixes a security vulnerability in Git large file storage (LFS) and other clean/smudge filters affecting Git 2.15 and newer. An analysis.
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Microsoft Releases Azure AD My App and New Risk Detections for Identity Protection into GA
Microsoft recently released a few new Azure Active Directory (AD) features, namely My Apps "collections" and new "risk detections" capabilities, into general availability (GA). With these features, the company intends to simplifying identity and access management while also enhancing the customization and controls.
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Xamarin Forms 5.0 Stabilizes New Graphic and Interactive Features
Xamarin Forms 5.0 is a major new release of Xamarin open-source framework to create cross-platforms UI for iOS, Android, and Windows. It stabilizes a number of new features such as Brushes, Shapes and Paths, CarouselView, drag and drop, and more.
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Qt 6 Improves QML, Adopts C++17, and More
Qt 6 is a new major release of Qt, the free and open-source, cross-platform toolkit for creating GUI apps that powers Linux's KDE desktop environment. While striving to keep full source compatibility, Qt 6 brings many changes, including improved QML, a new graphic architecture, C++17 support, improved tooling, and more.
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Microsoft Edge WebView2 Now Generally Available
After publishing last year a preview release of WebView2, a Chromium-based control to host web content within native Windows applications, Microsoft recently announced the general availability of WebView2 for production Win32 C/C++, .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET 5 applications. WebView2 provides two distribution models (evergreen/fixed) with a different update policy (automatic/manual).
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Swift Aims to Become a Data Race-Free Concurrent Language
The Swift team has published its roadmap to improve concurrency support in Swift. In a first phase, Swift will gain the async syntax and actors, while in a second phase focus will be on eliminating data races and deadlocks.
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Apple Open Sources System, Swift Library Interfacing with System-Level API
System is a low-level library Apple introduced at its last WWDC conference to provide an idiomatic and type-safe interface to system calls and currency types usually available at the OS level. In keeping with Apple's aim to push Swift as a cross-platform development ecosystem, System has been open-sourced to make it easier for programmers to contribute to its further development across platforms.
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Google Announces New Features Making It Easier to Manage Windows Server VMs
Recently Google announced several new features such as boot-screen diagnostics, auto-upgrade for Windows Server, new diagnostics tooling, and improved license reporting. Most of these updates are available in beta and intend to simplify troubleshooting problems, upgrading, and managing the license requirements of Windows workloads running on Google Cloud (GCP).
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Windows Terminal 1.0 Released with Support for Profiles, Multiple Panes, and Unicode Characters
Microsoft has moved Windows Terminal out of preview and announced the release of version 1.0. Windows Terminal includes multiple tabs, panes, customizable shortcuts, support for Unicode and UTF-8 characters, and custom themes and styles. The terminal can support PowerShell, cmd, WSL, and other command-line tools.
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Microsoft Build 2020: Highlights
Last week Microsoft held the 10th edition of Build, its annual conference aimed at developers using Microsoft technologies. The online event included multiple important announcements and releases, such as the general availability of Blazor WebAssembly, updates on the upcoming .NET 5, Azure Static Web Apps, and new projects related to IoT and Artificial Intelligence.
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Swift 5.3 Will Expand Officially Supported Platforms to Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
Swift 5.3 has recently entered the final stage of its development with the creation of the release/5.3 branch. One of the major goals for the upcoming Swift release is extending official platform support, including additional Linux distributions and Windows.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Windows Server Containers, and More for AKS
Almost a year ago, Microsoft launched a preview of Windows Server Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Now the company announced the general availability of Windows Server containers in AKS, including the support of private clusters and managed identities.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability with Improved Update Process
Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004. WSL2 was released into the Insider Program last year. With the move to general availability, WSL2 can now be automatically updated via standard Windows Updates.
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GraalVM 20.0: Run Tomcat as Native Image on Windows
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages like Java, Python, and JavaScript, has released major version 20.0 with full support on Windows Platform. In a related news, Apache Tomcat 9 has announced full support for GraalVM native image generation that includes the container.
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IBM Stops Work on Swift — Q&A with Chris Bailey
IBM has recently discontinued its involvement in Server-side Swift development, which started soon after Swift was open-sourced, and relinquished its leadership in the Swift Server Work Group [SSWG]. InfoQ has talked to IBM's Chris Bailey to learn more about what this may imply for Swift and the Swift community.