Looking for the latest tech news? Here’s a rundown of some of the smaller developments from the past few days.
Rust 1.69 has introduced a new subcommand for the Cargo package manager. It now automatically fixes simple compiler warnings, which should make life easier for developers.
Updates to the WildFly 28 from Java are mainly focused on observability. This includes integration with Micrometer and the switch to MicroProfile Telemetry from MicroProfile OpenTracing.
Red Hat has published a new report on Kubernetes security. The study, which surveyed 600 DevOps, technical and security personnel, highlighted that over half of respondents have experienced an issue in the software supply chain within the last 12 months related to cloud-native and containerised development.
Google has announced a new release of the Graphics Shapes library. Version 1.0.0-alpha02 reportedly allows creating and displaying rounded polygonal shapes, as well as automatic animation between different shapes. This version includes various API changes, including the merging of the Polygon superclass with its subclass.
Vite deployment server and build tool have launched version 4.3, which features various improvements in the development server’s performance. Streamlined resolution logic, improved hotpaths, and intelligent caching for the search for package.json have been implemented.
Microsoft’s Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) is moving forward, and the team announced in a blog post that developers can use a single code base to write a component designed for WinUI 2 on UWP, the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 as well as the Uno platform (with WinUI 2 or 3) works. Additionally, developers can now write Markdown-based documentation with embedded interactive examples that run directly in their browser.
Ktor, an open-source software for asynchronous client and server applications, has reached version 2.3.0. It now supports regular expressions in routing, API sanitization of static content, support for “100 Continue,” and static linking of the libcurl library for mingwx64.
Gatsby, an open-source static website generator, is now in version 5.9.0. The development team highlights performance improvements to Gatsby and gatsby-source-contentful. It also provides a new tutorial for creating a source plugin.
MLflow 2.3 is an update to the open-source machine learning platform. The new version provides three new model flavors: Hugging Face Transformers, OpenAI Functions, and LangChain. These new features expanding the software’s ability to manage and deploy large language models (LLMs).
The WebAssembly Runtime Wasmer has reached version 3.20. This release features support for RISC-V chipsets, WASI improvements, stable WCGI support, a new runner architecture, and a revised type API.
