Here is the quite subjective selection of smaller news items from the past few days:
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- The Apache Kafka messaging system is now available in version 3.7.0. While JBOD for KRaft clusters was not available in the previous version 3.6, the development team now reports that an early access version of this functionality has been activated with this release. Additionally, client APIs released before Apache Kafka 2.1 are now deprecated and removed starting with Apache Kafka 4.0.
- The Wine project, which allows Windows programs to run on Unix-like operating systems, has released version 9.3 of the software. In addition to improvements in Internet proxy support, this release also includes new HID device drivers and further exception eliminations on ARM platforms.
- Database provider Couchbase has announced that vector search is now available on all of its products such as Capella, Enterprise Server and Mobile. According to the company, this functionality allows similar objects to be found in a search query, even if they do not directly match. Developers can rely on full support from vector search in REST API, SDK and SQL++.
- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the graduation of Falco. Falco is a cloud-native security tool developed for Linux systems and used for Kubernetes threat detection. The software uses custom kernel event rules to provide real-time alerts and helps provide insight into abnormal behavior, potential security threats and compliance violations.
- The BigCode community releases StarCoder2. The software is described as the next generation of transparently trained open code LLMs. StarCoder2 is a family of open code LLMs trained on 619 programming. It should be able to offer developers functions such as code generation, workflow generation and text summarization.
- Swift is once again taking part in this year's edition of Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The team behind Apple's programming language would like to once again initiate projects around aspects such as compilers, runtime or the tooling ecosystem. Anyone who would like to get involved can find further suggestions on the project ideas website. In addition, the development team of the JavaScript framework Electron has also announced its participation in the GSoC.
- GitHub now enables push protection by default. The service blocks a commit to a public repository if it contains secrets (passwords, API tokens, etc.). Users can bypass the blocking if they wish. During the test phase, GitHub discovered one million secrets within eight weeks.
- The Java security framework Apache Shiro has been released in version 2.2.0 and strengthens its hashing algorithms with Argon2 and BCrypt. It also supports Jakarta EE 10 and Spring Boot 3. In Jakarta it is also available as a module. The minimum VM version is Java 11.
- The Google development team has announced the availability of a stable version of the Android Studio Iguna IDE for Android application development on the company's Developer Blog. With this version, developers should now be able to create, among other things, adaptive and barrier-free UIs in Jetpack Compose. To this end, Iguana is introducing a new UI check mode in Compose Preview. The functionality is similar to visual linting and view accessibility checks.
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(May)