Technology news website, Heise Developer, recently featured a selection of interesting and noteworthy updates from various software and application tools. In this article, we’ll break down the key updates from this publication.
Spring Cloud Gateway 2.0: The commercial offering by VMware, based on the open source project Spring Cloud Gateway, now allows for the use of Redis to manage a shared cache for two API gateway instances. This update also enables the integration of Zipkin to record tracing data.
Qwik: The HTML-first approach JavaScript framework, Qwik, is preparing for its first major version after removing all deprecated APIs in its latest 0.100.0 update. There are no further breaking changes expected until v1.0.
JKube 1.12: Resource limits for containers can now be set for cloud-native Java applications using XML/DSL configuration. This software now allows plugins and library collection for these types of applications.
Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing: This platform, designed by Lakehouse company Databricks, is created for manufacturing industry use. It offers integrated AI functions and solutions for predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and other industry-specific challenges.
PowerShellGet 3.0: Microsoft’s PowerShell team released a new preview version of PowerShellGet 3.0, which includes a major overhaul of the module to remove the dependency on the NuGet client APIs, planned to be provided in the next preview of PowerShell 7.4.
Apache Ranger 2.4: The GDPR-compliant masking of personal data framework, Apache Ranger, has been updated with numerous bug fixes and new functions, such as finely graduated access control via nested structures.
Continuous Modernization Manager (CMM): vFunction has introduced software designed to support software architects and developers in the continuous monitoring, detection, and localization of problems with the application architecture. CMM can monitor Java and .NET applications and services to set baseline values and to monitor architectural drift and erosion.
Big Data Tools v2023.1: This software now offers integration with Kafka Schema Registry, Kerberos authentication, and expanded support for all cloud storage. Developers should be able to explore Kafka topics serialized in Avro or Protobuf directly in the IDE.
GitHub Maintainer Community: GitHub has created a private space for maintainers, offering invitations to private maintainer events, early access to betas and previews and regular workshops on the best practices for contributing to open source software.
Rapid 2.0 from Meta: This tool for editing OpenStreetMap maps promises higher performance after the update with the rendering engine working up to a factor of 10 faster.
PL/Rust reaches version 1.0: PL/Rust, a procedural language handler that allows PostgreSQL functions to be written in Rust programming language has reached version 1.0.
These updates show the range of new features being introduced by technology companies and organizations, and underline the importance of software and application updates to ensure the smooth functioning of IT systems.
