In recent tech news, there have been several updates and releases worth noting. Here is a roundup of some of the smaller messages from the past few days.
The library collection Spring Modulith has reached version 0.6. This tool allows logical modules to be implemented in Spring Boot applications, and the new release offers support for jMolecules architecture stereotypes and autoconfiguration for MongoDB transactions. The first major release is expected to coincide with the GA of Spring Boot 3.1.
Tabnine AI is an AI-driven pair programming assistant, which is now available for Java development with Eclipse, for all versions from Starters to Pro to Enterprise Edition.
Valgrind, a code analysis tool suite, has released version 3.21 with an increased focus on integrating the GDB debugger. Valgrind now includes GDB Python commands with auto-completion and command-specific help, among other things.
Databricks is making its AI language model Dolly 2.0, including the dataset “databricks-dolly-15k,” open source on Hugging faces. Users can also take data from an Apache Spark dataset directly into Hugging Face datasets for training and tuning.
JetBrains’ language workbench for creating domain-specific languages, MPS, is now in version 2022.3, with improvements in constraint rules, module loading, and the importing of stubs from compiled Kotlin or JVM libraries.
The Sovereign Tech Fund, financed by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, has invested €875,000 into the OpenJS Foundation to expand JavaScript infrastructure and security.
Docker Desktop is now in version 4.19, with container-to-host networking performance reportedly five times higher under macOS. The Docker engine and CLI have also been updated to Moby 23, and support for other programming languages and frameworks, such as Java, Rust, and .NET, is on the way.
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code Extension for Python has received its monthly update with changes including the non-automatic installation of the Jupyter Extension and the ability to create a VS Code profile that includes both extensions.
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the availability of SPA 1.0, a privacy and security framework for Postgres customers that integrates with any custom privacy functionality, including third-party extensions.
Finally, Slack and Salesforce have showcased their new Slack AI integration at Salesforce’s World Tour New York GPT announced. The integration provides access to generative AI apps, different language models, and customer data from Customer 360 and Data Cloud, and a collaboration with Salesforce’s Einstein GPT is also in the works.
