Here is the quite subjective selection of smaller news items from the past few days:
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- The stand-alone GUI Hotspot, which offers an interface for analyzing performance data, has the version 1.5.0 reached. The development team positions the software as an alternative
perf report, for performance analysis on Linux systems. The team cites the most important innovation in this version as the improved disassembly view, which can offer higher speed in addition to better search and better highlighting. - The Apache Arrow big data framework has now been released in version 16.0.0 published. One of the highlights the developers include is that support for Azure Blob Storage has now been added. Furthermore, Arrow C++ can now be built with Emscripten, which has created the basis for running Arrow C++ under Wasm runtimes and possibly also PyArrow.
- The Qt group has the availability of the Version 3.2.0 of their Qt Visual Studio Tools announced. In addition to experimental support for QML LSP Server, this update to the Visual Studio Tools extension now also provides full support for tools for Visual Studio 2022 on the ARM64 platform.
- The WildFly community has the final version 32 of the application server Approved. The Wildfly preview version, into which the development team integrates future technical innovations, is also available in version 32.0.0. The software has a number of innovations and enhancements, including support for an SSLContext for outgoing requests. In addition, the WildFly Provisioning Tooling has also been further developed to further support the concept of functional stability.
- The Rust project will be at Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024 participate. Back in February, it published a list of project ideas and began discussing them with potential applicants. Now the Rust team will submit 9 of 65 as concrete suggestions to the Google program. Google has that Summer of Code launched to bring open source projects together with contributors.
- The AI coding assistant aider offers in version 0.31.0 an interface in the browser at. In contrast to other assistants, aider tries to integrate the entire project of a repository into the AI context.
- Version 22.1.0 of Node.js does local caching on the hard drive of JavaScript modules. It uses the Chrome V8 Code Cache. Modules start slower when they are first loaded, but then faster if the content has not changed. Loading improved in the test
test/fixtures/snapshot/typescript.jsfrom around 130 to 80 milliseconds. - The development platform Uno Platform Version 5.2 now combines nine target platforms in a .NET project: iOS, Android, Windows App SDK, Mac Catalyst, WebAssembly, Skia/Windows, Skia/Linux/X11, Skia/Linux/Framebuffer and Skia/macOS. According to the team’s own statements, this release is “our biggest yet”.
- Git 2.45 has been released with some new features. The version management software now brings experimental support for the new reference storage backend “reftable” and SHA-256 interoperability. A repository with the new backend can be created via
--ref-format=reftableinitialize.
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