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By John K. Waters
Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 has reached the release candidate stage, marking its next step toward general availability on September 17, 2024. The upcoming non-LTS (Long Term Support) release, with only six months of official support from Oracle, finalizes a dozen new features designed to enhance Java’s functionality.
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java platform provider Azul just announces the winners of its first-ever Azul Java Hero Awards, which recognizes exceptional achievements in Java deployments worldwide.
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By John K. Waters
Real-time payments software provider ACI Worldwide is partnering with Red Hat to expand its Enterprise Payments Platform, the two companies announced today. This partnership will allow ACI’s platform to be deployed across any cloud infrastructure using Red Hat OpenShift, the companies said.
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By John K. Waters
The BMW Group officially joins the Eclipse Foundation’s Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group as a strategic member, enhancing global collaboration on open-source software for modern vehicles. The SDV Working Group aims to develop open-source technologies for automotive applications.
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After seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft’s similar Visual Studio Code editor.
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By John K. Waters
The TIOBE Index update for June 2024 revealed significant shifts in the programming landscape, with C++ surpassing C for the first time in history. But Java held its own in fourth place.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation, in collaboration with the Adoptium Working Group, unveils the latest release of Eclipse Temurin, the working group's OpenJDK distribution.
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Our columnist ponders the question, Are companies seeking citizen developers missing the point of citizen development?
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java platform provider Azul announces ReadyNow Orchestrator, a new feature of its Platform Prime designed to reduce warmup time for Java applications.
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By John K. Waters
The community behind the open-source Apache Pulsar all-in-one messaging and streaming platform has announced its first long-term support (LTS) release: Pulsar 3.0. This is the first of what the community promises is a new, faster release cadence.
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java platform provider Azul has announced that its Zulu downstream distribution of OpenJDK now supports Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) functionality.
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By John K. Waters
New cybersecurity rules for digital products proposed by the European Commission pose "unnecessary economic and technological risks to the European Union," according to a group of 12 open-source software leadership organizations.
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By John K. Waters
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.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft took the next step in its ChatGPT strategy this week, but Google introduced its LaMDA-based Bard. The conversation over conversational AI just got interesting.
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By John K. Waters
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.
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By John K. Waters
ChatGPT is so hot right now, our columnist couldn't get an interview at OpenAI, so he went to the source, so to speak, and queried the tool itself about the opportunities and challenges it presents to developers.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat's Quarkus team rang in the New Year with the release of Quarkus 2.15.3.Final. This version contains bug fixes and documentation improvements for the 2.15 release train.
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By John K. Waters
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.
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By John K. Waters
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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By John K. Waters
A lawsuit filed in a U.S. Federal Court in San Francisco claims GitHub Copilot, which trained on billions of lines of publicly-available code, is violating the legal rights of those who posted code under open-source licenses.
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By John K. Waters
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.
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By John K. Waters
New Relic's just released "2022 State of Logs Report" captured data gathered from millions of applications within its observability platform, and half of all logs ingested by language agents came from Java.
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By John K. Waters
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.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle announces Java 19, a short-term release with previews and incubating features from OpenJDK projects Amber, Panama, and Loom.
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By John K. Waters
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.