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Experimental Features, Fixes, and Improvements in Latest Kotlin Release

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.

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AWS 'Investing to Deliver Rust Engineering at Amazon Scale'

With Rust becoming a bigger part of its development backbone, AWS is seeking to bring more Rust engineers into its ranks.

GraalVM 20.3 Final Feature Release of 2020

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.

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Red Hat Extends OpenShift Across Archs, Apps, and Infra with New Capabilities

Red Hat unveiled a raft of new capabilities for its OpenShift Kubernetes container platform at this week's KubeCon + Cloud Native online event, from updates to OpenShift Serverless to extended support across architectures.

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Microsoft's KubeCon News Includes AKS Support for Kubernetes 1.19

Microsoft unveiled several Azure Kubernetes Service product milestones during the KubeCon + Cloud Native online event, including new support for Kubernetes 1.19.

Instana Adds Kubernetes Support

Application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions provider Instana today announced that users of its APM solution now have the ability to deploy its on-prem, self-hosted solutions via Kubernetes.

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Infragistics Updates Ignite UI for React and Web Components

Cross-platform UI and UX toolmaker Infragistics announced this week the release of new updates to its enterprise-grade UI components for the Web. Ignite UI for React 16.12.4 and Ignite UI for Web Components 1.1.4 include new features for the Ignite UI Data Grid and one new preview component.

Accurics Extends Support to CNCF Projects Helm and Kustomize

Cloud security provider Accurics announced that it is extending support in its Terrascan open-source tool for detecting compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to two Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects: Helm and Kustomize.

New Report Offers Data-backed Benchmarks on Engineering Team Performance

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform provider CircleCI today announced the findings of its annual report on the state of software delivery. In this year's report, the CircleCI researchers set the first-ever benchmarks for teams practicing CI/CD.

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Apple Silicon Gets Native Java Support from Azul

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.

Latest Version of Debugpy Debugger in Python in Visual Studio Code Update

Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

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Java Unit Testing Solution Free for Open Source

Diffblue makes a free version of its AI-powered Java unit testing solution available for developers on open source software projects.

OpenSSF Offers Free Training on Developing Secure Software

The Open Software Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has created three courses on developing secure software, which are being offered for free as part of the Secure Software Development Fundamentals Professional Certificate program, on the nonprofit edX learning platform.

Java and C++ Lose Tops Spots in TIOBE Index for the First Time

For the first time since 2001, Java and C++ are not occupying one of the two top spots in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.

Instana's Always-On Continuous Production Profiling for PHP and Python Apps

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions provider Instana adds PHP and Python to the list of languages supported by its continuous production profiler.

Red Sky Ops ML Engine Tunes Kubernetes HPA

Carbon Relay announces key enhancements of its flagship artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform.

Latest Oracle CPU: 402 Patches on 29 Products, Java SE Gets a Breather with Only 8 CVEs

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.

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Linux 5.10 Released: Bigger Kernel Release Than Expected

Linus Torvalds this week announced the first release candidate of version 5.10 of the Linux kernel (Linux 5.10-rcl), a release that also marks the end of the feature merge window for this EOY 2020 kernel.

GrammaTech Tool Uncovers Third-Party Code 'Blind Spots'

New security solution surfaces vulnerabilities in third-party code used in the development of custom applications.

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New Neurons Platform Updates from Ivanti

Automated IT and security solutions provider Ivanti today announces two additions to its Neurons "hyper-automation" platform: Neurons for Patch Intelligence and Neurons for Spend Intelligence.