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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, and RubyMine Updates

Software development toolmaker JetBrains has announced the 2023.1 versions of its three integrated development environments: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, and RubyMine.

Oracle Releases JDK 20 First Under New License

Oracle's latest release of its reference implementation of the Java SE platform, Oracle JDK 20, includes seven JEPs comprising thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements.

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Gradle Inc. Speeds Scala Compiler Times with Triplequote Acquisition

Grade, Inc., the company behind the commercial version of the open-source Gradle build automation tool, Gradle Enterprise, has announced the acquisition of Swiss-based software development technology provider Triplequote.

Payara Now Part of the Eclipse Foundation's MicroProfile Working Group

Payara, the company behind the popular fork of the open-source GlassFish application server, has joined the Eclipse Foundation's MicroProfile Working Group.

Red Hat-Oracle Collaboration Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux to OCI

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now certified to run on Oracle's cloud services platform as a supported operating system. The move is part of a multi-stage alliance to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on OCI.

SingularityCE Now Accessible for Enterprise Linux

SingularityCE, an open-source container runtime designed for data science, AI, and compute-driven analytics on performance-intensive systems is now accessible for Enterprise Linux users through the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository.

Google Offers Public Preview of SDK Extensions for Android

Google announced this week the release of the first public preview its SDK Extensions, which leverage modular system components to add APIs to the public SDK for certain previously released API levels.

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Apache Cassandra 4.1 Goes GA, 'Paves the Way for Cloud-Native Future'

The 4.1 release of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is now generally available. The project’s major release for 2022 comes with lots of new features and "paves the way," the community said in a blog post, for "a more cloud-native future" for the project. It also marks the community's commitment to annual releases, announced last year.

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App Monitoring Toolmaker Sentry Acquires Code Coverage Provider Codecov

Sentry, a leading provider of dev-first app monitoring, acquires dedicated code coverage tools makes Codecov.

New CLI Tool Allows Java Devs to Add 'Fuzzing' to JUnit

Code Intelligence's CI Fuzz CLI tool now allows to Java developers to incorporate fuzz testing into their existing JUnit setups.

AWS Introduces Lambda SnapStart for Java

AWS unveils a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications, and initially aimed at Java developers.

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BlackBerry's QNX Tech Now Available to Embedded Devs in the Cloud

BlackBerry announces that it's extending its use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make its QNX techn available to mission-critical embedded systems developers in the cloud.

ScaleOut Software Introduces New Java Client API

In-memory database solutions provider ScaleOut Software introduces a new Java client API for its ScaleOut StateServer distributed caching platform.

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Neo4j Announces GA of its Next-Gen Graph Database

Graph database pioneer Neo4j announces the general availability of the latest update of its namesake offering this week: Neo4j 5.

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GitHub Rolls Out Upgrades for Copilot and Others at GitHub Universe

GitHub made some big product announcements at its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco, including expanded access for business users of its Copilot AI-pair programming tool.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code for Java Now Supports Virtual Threads

The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code for Java comes with updates in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to the Java 19 preview of Virtual Threads in Project Loom.

IntelliJ Gets Azure Cosmos DB Support in Microsoft Java Tooling Update

The latest update of Java on Azure Tooling, announced last week, comes with new support for the Azure Cosmos DB and enhancements to Azure Virtual Machine functionality.

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Oracle Joins the Micronaut Foundation

Oracle has joined the Micronaut Foundation, the not-for-profit organization established to advance innovation and adoption of a popular open-source, JVM-based framework for building microservices and serverless applications.

Fedora 37 Now in Beta

The Fedora Project has announced the beta release of Fedora Linux 37, the latest version of the free and open source Fedora Linux operating system.

White House Calls for 'Attestations' of Secure Practices from Third-Party Software Providers

White House publishes guidelines requiring government agencies to obtain formal assurances from third-party software providers that they are following secure software development practices.