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| Hey Insiders, Thanks for reading today's Inside Dev newsletter! Today, we cover: - Findings from Eclipse Foundation's 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Report;
- General availability of Java 21 and JDK 21;
- Performance improvements coming to .NET 8;
- And more!
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| 1 | | The Jakarta EE Developer Survey Report for 2023 revealed that the usage of Jakarta EE 10 among Java developers has increased by 17%. The Eclipse Foundation's enterprise Java version was released in September 2022. More: - The use of Jakarta EE 9 and 8 also increased from 14% and 24% to 17% and 28%, respectively.
- The report identified better support for Kubernetes, microservices, services, adaption of features such as records and virtual threads, and improved testing support as top priorities for the Jakarta EE community.
- Jakarta EE is the second most used framework (53%) for building cloud-native applications, behind Spring and Spring Boot (66%). Utilization of Eclipse's MicroProfile declined from 30% in 2022 to 26%.
- The Eclipse Foundation surveyed 2,203 developers, architects, team leaders, development managers, etc., between mid-March and late May to prepare the report.
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| 2 | | Oracle announced the general availability Java 21 and JDK 21, the latest long-term release. JDK 21 will receive support from Oracle for at least eight years. More: - JDK 21 comes with 15 features, including a key encapsulation mechanism API, virtual threads, string template previews, and structured concurrency.
- The experimental Shenandoah garbage collector, a proposed 16th feature, was dropped in June and postponed to a future release.
- Oracle also extended the long-term support for Java 11, released five years ago, to January 2032.
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| 3 | | In a recently published post, Microsoft's partner software engineer, Stephen Toub, detailed the performance improvements coming to .NET 8. Toub believes the ability to set Dynamic Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) on by default would be the most valuable pull request in the upcoming version of .NET 8. More: - Static PGO is an approach in which applications are built with additional instrumentation, run the application on key scenarios, gather results, and rebuild the application by imputing the instrumentation data into the optimizer.
- Dynamic PGO automates this optimization process within the application's execution to enhance code performance without any manual effort.
- Dynamic PGO was previewed in .NET 6, improved in .NET 7 but remained off by default, and now, after significant improvements, it is on by default.
- Microsoft also made improvements to vectorization, branching, bounds checking, zeroing, casting, value types, and more.
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| 4 | | Safari 17.0 is now available for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 through a public beta on macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, and macOS Sonoma. The stable release of Safari 17.0 is planned for Sept. 26. Here are the new WebKit features in Safari 17.0: - A new search element in HTML that provides the correct accessibility semantics for the search section of a website.
- Further, it adds support for the popover attribute, offering a web-based framework for displaying overlays, popups, popovers, and dialogs.
- Support for font-size-adjust has been expanded to include more advanced capabilities, such as the from-font value and the two-value syntax.
- Other CSS features include support for text-transform: full-width and text-transform: full-size-kana, two new feature queries for conditionally applying CSS, and more.
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| 5 | | GitHub added the ability to create custom rules that determine how Dependabot auto-dismisses and reopens alerts. Custom auto-triage rules are available to everyone through its public beta. More: - Auto-triage rules help developers reduce false positives and alert fatigue considerably while better managing their alerts.
- GitHub said the feature lets developers focus on addressing critical alerts over non-critical ones.
- The beta release includes ignore and snooze-until-patch functionality with repository-level rules, and GitHub plans to add support for managing rules at the organizational level in the future.
- It is available for free for public repositories and as a part of GitHub Advanced Security for private repositories.
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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