Developer Snapshots: Programmer news in a sentence or two

Here is the quite subjective selection of smaller messages of the past few days:

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• The first release candidate for TensorFlow 2.14 is available. The machine learning framework from Google changes the class hierarchy for tf.Tensor and leads the new classes EagerTensor as well as SymbolicTensor a. The TensorFlow Lite plugin for Flutter has meanwhile reached official availability and the source code is now on GitHub. For example, TensorFlow Lite can be used to run TensorFlow models on edge devices.
• On the developer blog, Microsoft announced the availability of the first official pre-packages for the Windows Community Toolkit 8.0 on NuGet.org announced. The toolkit provides a number of useful tools and components for the Windows platform that are intended to make the work of developers easier. It offers a code basewhich makes all components work for both WinUI 2 on UWP, the Windows App SDK + WinUI 3 and Uno Platform (with WinUI 2 or 3).
• Dependabot, GitHub’s security tool for finding vulnerabilities, can now open pull requests to trigger alerts for resolving Gradle dependencies. When developers use the Dependency Submission API to upload Gradle dependencies to the dependency graph, Dependabot can now try to open a pull request to fix them automatically.
• The Java framework based on Jakarta EE 10 Quarkus is version 3.3.0 reached. Key changes include improvements to the OpenTelemetry extension, the Reactive Messaging Pulsar extension, and the ability to customize the ObjectMapper in the REST client Reactive Jackson.
• The Apache PDFBox Community provides version 3.0.0 of the PDF box for download ready. The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. The software enables the creation of new documents as well as the editing of existing ones and includes, among other things, the possibility of extracting content from documents.

• California software company Armory has the Platform developer.armory.io presented. It aims to help improve the developer experience through its declarative continuous deployment services (Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service). This hub allows to visualize deployment configurations to understand existing setups, expose URLs of exposed services to webhooks for service identification and access and inspect Kubernetes manifests.
• The development team behind the JavaScript framework Ember now has the software released in version 5.2.0. It is an incremental, backwards compatible release of Ember with bug fixes, performance improvements, and some now deprecations. The version leads with the public import for uniqueId-Helper just a new feature.
• Apache Arrow, the framework for in-memory data analysis, is now available in version 13.0.0 ready. Among other things, the development team added the “Run-End Encoded Layout”. This allows developers to better encode and process data with duplicate values ​​during long runs.
• The Spring team at VMware Tanzu has availability Spring Boot version 3.2.0-M2 announced. The release includes 132 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency updates, and bug fixes. Among the new features are improved support for virtual threads when running on Java 21 and auto-configuration for the new one JdbcClient by Spring Framework.

(May)