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AWS Launches Open-Source Agent for AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new open-source agent for AWS Secrets Manager. According to the company, this agent simplifies the process of retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, enabling secure and streamlined application access.
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Google Cloud Introduces Geo-Partitioning for Spanner: Reduced Latency and Cost Optimization
Google Cloud has announced adding geo-partitioning to Spanner, its fully-managed, globally distributed database. According to the company, this new feature aims to improve performance and user experience for geographically dispersed applications and users while optimizing operational costs.
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QCon London: Netflix Saves Time and Money with Server-Driven Notifications
At QCon London 2024, Christopher Luu explained how Netflix uses server-driven UIs for rich notifications. This saves developer time through reuse across platforms and better testing but adds effort for backward compatibility. Developers write notifications by embedding so-called Customer Lifecycle Component System (CLCS) components in JavaScript, similar to how React UIs embed HTML in JavaScript.
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CrowdStrike Update Bricks Estimated 8.5M Windows Machines Worldwide
CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity technology company, recently released a product update that bricked an estimated 8.5 million computers running Windows globally, affecting businesses, individual users, and software companies. The company provides cloud workload protection, endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase Two, Graal Development Kit, Payara Platform, JSpecify
This week's Java roundup for July 15th, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase Two: the July 2024 Payara Platform release; Graal Development Kit for Micronaut 4.5.0; GraalVM for JDK 22 Community 22.0.2; JSpecify 1.0.0, MicroProfile 7.0-RC1, Open Liberty 24.0.0.7; and the July 2024 Oracle Critical Patch Update.
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JEP 481: Third Preview of Scoped Values API Brings Key Enhancements in JDK 23
JEP 481, Scoped Values (Third Preview), formerly known as Extent-Local Variables (Incubator), offers a third preview, with one change, to gain additional experience and feedback from one round of incubation and two rounds of preview. This feature enables the sharing of immutable data within and across threads.
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Spring Ecosystem Delivers Numerous Milestone Releases
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of July 15th, 2024, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1; Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6; Spring Security 6.4.0-M1; Spring Session 3.4.0-M1; Spring Integration 6.4.0-M1; and Spring Modulith 1.3.0-M1; Spring AMQP 3.2.0-M1; and Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M1.
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Swift 6 Introduces Embedded Swift for Low-level Programming
Swift 6 brings a new compilation mode aiming to address the specific constraints of embedded devices as well as kernel- and other low-level code. Embedded Swift is a full-featured subset of Swift covering most of the language, including value and reference types, closures, optionals, error handling, generics and more.
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Microsoft Releases .NET 9 Preview 6
Last week Microsoft released the sixth preview of .NET 9 framework, introducing several updates across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, and frameworks such as ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI. As stated, the release aims to enhance performance, improve developer experience, and expand functionality.
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OpenSilver 3.0 Releases WYSIWYG UI Designer with AI Support
The latest version of OpenSilver 3.0, a remake of Microsoft's retired Silverlight web application framework, introduces a new drag-and-drop user interface designer with AI code generation. It also brings OpenSilver to VS Code and non-Windows platforms.
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Microsoft Entra Suite Now Generally Available: Identity and Security Based Upon Zero-Trust Models
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Entra Suite. According to the company, the suite provides a solution that integrates identity and security, facilitating a more unified approach to security operations.
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MySQL 9.0 Innovation Release Now Available
On July 1st, Oracle announced the release of MySQL 8.0.38, the initial update for the 8.4 Long Term Support (LTS) series, and the inaugural MySQL 9.0 release. The Innovation release introduces new features, such as vector and JavaScript support. In contrast, the two LTS releases focus on stability, providing security updates, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
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Queue Support for Apache Kafka: KIP-932 and KMQ from SoftwareMill
The Apache Kafka community is actively working on enabling queue-like use cases for a popular messaging platform as part of the ongoing KIP-932 (Kafka Improvement Proposal). The proposal introduces a share group abstraction for cooperative message consumption. Meanwhile, SoftwareMill created an alternative solution that can work with the existing consumer group abstraction.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Pools: Flexible and Tailored Virtual Desktop Environments
Amazon has announced a new feature for Amazon WorkSpaces called WorkSpaces Pools. This feature provides non-persistent virtual desktops across a group of users. Administrators can manage a portfolio of persistent and non-persistent desktops through a Graphic User Interface, command line, or API-powered tools.
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JEP 472: Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI in JDK 24
JEP 472, now Proposed to Target, aims to issue warnings for using the Java Native Interface (JNI) and adjust the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API for consistent warnings. This prepares developers for future releases that restrict JNI and the FFM API to ensure integrity by default.