1. Java and Technical
>> InfoQ Java Trends Report – December 2024 [infoq.com]
As always, an insighful article about the state of our ecosystem, over on InfoQ.
>> Dates aren’t what they used to be [vanillajava.blog]
Dealing with time is unsurprisingly complex. But the dates story has definitely evolved and matured in Java.
Also worth reading:
- >> Warp: the new CRaC engine [foojay.io]
- >> JavaOne: A Lifetime of Java Learning in Three Days [inside.java]
- >> Empowering Your Annotations with Fields [vanillajava.blog]
- >> The Foreign Function and Memory API [dev.java]
- >> Using JSpecify 1.0 to Tame Nulls in Java [scottlogic.com]
- >> Saff Squeeze: Example 1 [thecodewhisperer.com]
- >> Seconds Since the Epoch [aphyr.com]
- >> Reflecting on Life [pocoo.org]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about open source, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM, and more! [foojay.io]
- >> Episode 33 “JDK 24 and More” with Chad [inside.java]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring Boot 3.3.7 available now as well as 3.4.1 [spring.io]
- >> Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.7 and 1.2.1 are now available [spring.io]
- >> Spring Batch 5.1.3 and 5.2.1 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Modulith 1.3.1, 1.2.7, and 1.1.12 released [spring.io]
- >> Hibernate Reactive 2.4.3.Final released [in.relation.to]
- >> generator-jhipster v8.8.0 [github.com/jhipster]
- >> quarkus 3.17.5 [github.com/quarkusio]
- >> Micronaut Core 4.7.10 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> helidon 4.1.6 [github.com/helidon-io]
- >> Payara Platform Community 6.2024.12 [github.com/payara]
- >> Our next LTS will be Quarkus 3.20 [quarkus.io]
2. Pick of the Week
>> That’s Not an Abstraction, That’s Just a Layer of Indirection [fhur.me]
Happy New Year 
