Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Azul, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco, Devoxx Belgium
Summary
This weeks Java roundup for October 2nd, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Azul Code Inventory, Spring Shell 3.1.4, 3.0.8 and 2.1.13, JNoSQL 1.0.2, Quarkus 3.4.2, Micronaut 4.1.3, Hibernate Search 6.2.2, PrimeFaces 12.0.6, 11.0.12, 10.0.19 and 8.0.24, Maven 3.9.5, Camel 3.20.7, Tomcat Native 1.2.39, Testcontainers 1.19.1, JBang 0.111.0, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco and Devoxx Belgium. Improvements since the last release include: a new manifest attribute that allows code in executable JARs to call restricted methods without the use of the flag; allow clients to programmatically build C function descriptors, avoiding platform-specific constants; improved support for variable-length arrays in native memory; and support for multiple charsets in native strings. Apache Camel 3.20.7 has been released featuring bug fixes, dependency upgrades and improvements such as: environment variables with the name secret are now masked in logs; prevent the usage of proxy protocol in producer endpoint; and improved support for Mappers defined as abstract classes to allow for unwanted instances of the interface to be registered for the and methods. The release of JBang 0.111.0 provides: support for Groovy 4.0; a display of integration errors when the command line parameter is used; a check that a manifest exists before an attempt to read from it; and ensure that alias settings are properly applied. This five-day event is organized by C4Media, a software media company focused on unbiased content and information in the enterprise development community and creators of InfoQ and QCon.