Developer Snapshots: Programmer news in one or two sentences

Here is the quite subjective selection of smaller news items from the past few days:

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• The AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and ready for production use, AWS has announced. It provides access via crates.io and aims to provide an idiomatic, type-safe API as well as the benefits of modern programming languages ​​such as async/await.
• Allowed in the new release 4.15 the portable JavaScript framework Neutralinojs extending the standard user agent string. This is done using the configuration property window.extendUserAgentWith and the command line option --window-extend-user-agent-with=<string>.
• Docker Mail Server has version 13.0 reached. As the development team announces, there have never been as many pull requests in any release as this one. Among other things, the environment variables are now LDAP_SERVER_HOST, DOVECOT_URIS and SASLAUTHD_LDAP_SERVER Log an error message if the LDAP URI scheme is missing. So far it has the implicit fallback ldap:// given.
• CXX-Qt, a set of Rust crates for creating bidirectional Rust C++ bindings with Qt, approaches with version 0.6 a stable output. The API should now be in its final version. Further information about planned 1.0 API from CXX-Qt says the development team on GitHub.
• Gradle 8.5 has been released and can handle Java 21. New features for Kotlin DSL and more meaningful error messages are also on board.

• Google’s Android team has the stable version of Android Studio Hedgehog published. The tool focuses on improved app performance, battery conservation and easier updates for apps to new Android versions.
• From the observability tool Grafana agent is now available in version 0.38 with new components for OpenTelemetry, for example for vCenter from VMware. The manufacturer has also improved the configuration of Agent Flow.
• Quarkus 3.6.0 brings a number of improvements in SSE handling and OpenID. The Java framework on top of Kubernetes natively adds new functionality to the Server-Sent Events (SSE) REST client and increases security in some areas, such as OpenID-Connect (OIDC).
• The Release Candidate 2023.3 of IntelliJ IDEA was released by JetBrains and is available to Ultimate Edition subscribers as an Ubuntu Snap or direct download. Latest bugs can be reported via the issue tracker.
• A Security audit for the MQTT message broker Mosquitto The Eclipse Foundation has shown a number of problems that the publishers have fixed. The Foundation encourages users to update their servers.
• Also from Eclipse the new version 4.5 of Vert.x, the framework for the Java VM, and it brings virtual threads, which are currently spreading in the Java world with Java 21. Vert.x also understands JavaScript, Kotlin, Ruby and other languages.

(May)