The general availability release of Java 16, set for March 16, comes with a long list of new features.
Microsoft continued to beef up its support for Java developers in both the cloud and its popular, open source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with new updates to Azure Spring Cloud.
Netflix has open sourced its Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework for standalone and federated GraphQL services.
Microsoft releases a public preview of its Graph Java/Android SDK.
JDK 16 is now in the Second Release Candidate Phase (RC2) and on track for an early March release.
JetBrains opens an Early Access Program for the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1, giving fans of the tool and chance to take this version for a pre-release build test drive.
The Enterprise Edition of the GraalVM, Oracle's "universal virtual machine," is now available, free of charge, with a Java SE subscription, Oracle announced.
ScaleOut Software makes life easier for Java, C#, and JavaScript devs with a new rules engine in its Digital Twin Streaming Service.
Java apps earn higher security vulnerability score than .NET apps, a Contrast Lab report finds.
Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new project view, better known as the Java Projects Explorer.
The MariaDB Corp., the company behind MariaDB, community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), today announced the general availability of the MariaDB Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) connector.
Software development and collaboration tools provider Atlassian has announced four new features in its Jira Software Cloud designed to allow developers to visualize and measure progress "from idea through to production" across Atlassian and third-party tools.
Instana announces the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go.
Azul Systems and Payara have extended their agreement to ship Azul's Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK with Payara Platform Enterprise.
The latest point release of Kotlin delivers fixes and performance improvements for existing features, along with new experimental features and a call from the Kotlin team for feedback.
Oracle Labs announced the release of GraalVM 20.3, the final feature release for this year of the Community and Enterprise editions, and the first long-term support (LTS) release of GraalVM Enterprise.
Azul Systems announces plans to deliver OpenJDK builds for the new Apple Silicon machines, giving developers native Java support for current and popular Java versions.
Diffblue makes a free version of its AI-powered Java unit testing solution available for developers on open source software projects.
Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions provider Instana adds PHP and Python to the list of languages supported by its continuous production profiler.
Oracle publishes its last Critical Patch Update of 2020, including 402 patches across its product groups, but only 8 vulnerabilities affecting Java SE, the highest CVSS score of which was 5.3.