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Payara and Azul Secure Java Builds of OpenJDK for Payara Enterprise

Azul Systems and Payara have extended their agreement to ship Azul's Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK with Payara Platform Enterprise.

SmartBear Releases SwaggerHub Extension for Visual Studio Code

SmartBear releases the SwaggerHub extension for Visual Studio Code.

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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.

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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.

Pluralsight Live Announcements: A Partnership, an Acquisition, and Lots of Platform Enhancements

Online course provider Pluralsight made numerous announcements at its Pluralsight LIVE virtual event last week around its technology skills and engineering management platform, unveiled a new strategic partnership, and announced a key acquisition.

GitHub's New Command Line Tool Goes GA

GitHub announced the general availability of its new command-line tool, GitHub CLI, which edges Hub to become the official CLI tool.

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Microsoft's Security Group Open Sources Fuzzing Framework for Azure

Microsoft enables continuous developer-driven "fuzzing" with newly open sourced tool.

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Terrascan Update Leverages Cloud Native Computing Foundation's OPA Engine

Cloud security provider Accurics announced a major update of its free and open-source Terrascan static code analyzer for devs building Infrastructure as Code.

Micronaut 2.0 Full-Stack Java Framework Released

Micronaut is a JVM-based, full-stack Java framework developed by the creators of the Grails framework, and designed to provide developers with a polyglot tool for building modular, easily testable JVM applications with the Java, Kotlin, and Groovy languages.

Top Tech Firms Form Open Source Security Foundation

A group of leading tech industry heavy weights that includes Microsoft, IBM, and Google, announced the formation of a new software foundation to consolidates industry efforts to improve the security of open-source software.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Beta Released

Red Hat announces the beta availability of the latest minor release of the RHEL 8 platform.

GitHub Unveils Public Roadmap

GitHub today launched a new publicly accessible repository designed to allow anyone to look into all of the platform’s upcoming releases.

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Red Hat and GraalVM Community Create "Mandrel" GraalVM Distro

Java community leader Red Hat launches new GraalVM distro.

Apache Cassandra 4.0 Now in Beta

Calling it "the most stable Apache Cassandra in history," the community behind the popular open-source distributed database announced the 4.0 beta release this week.