Apache Software Foundation takes an in-depth look at its state of security in 2020
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released a new report examining key metrics, specific vulnerabilities and top security issues across its projects last year. The new report also notes all of the major security events that posed risks to its projects. According to the report, the first serious security event last year was an issue … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Security Compass launches hands-on training lab, Capacitor Core plugin changes, and Apache weekly updates
Security Compass has announced a hands-on training lab for balanced development automation. The new interactive virtual lab offers training across multiple exploit scenarios to help developers understand common vulnerabilities and how to build secure software, the company explained. The training lab can now be added to existing subscriptions for the Software Security Practitioner (SSP) Suites, … continue reading
Microsoft makes Win32 APIs available to more languages
Microsoft has expanded the scope of Win32 APIs beyond support for C and C++, with added support for C# and Rust through the win32metadata project now available in preview on GitHub. Other languages will follow, according to the Windows development team. Previously, developers using languages other than C and C++ had to use wrappers or … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Datatron Governance Dashboard released, DevOps Institute announces new growth and expanded team, and Cloudflare’s Project Fair Shot
Datatron released a new governance dashboard that allows data scientists and analysts to monitor and optimize their AI solutions. The new offering provides AI and machine learning model transparency risk management to help organizations comply with regulations while optimizing for business outcomes through visualizations and key metrics. “Just as cyberattacks can be devastating to companies, … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Progress releases new Kendo UI Native components, Platform9 announces new DevOps productivity capabilities, and Visual Studio 2019 v 16.9 preview 3
This week’s update of Progress’ Kendo UI includes 24 new UI components across all Kendo UI libraries as well as support for Angular 11 and React 17. Kendo UI for Angular introduces components including DropDownTree, MultiColumnComboBox, TileLayout, FloatingActionButton and more while KendoReact includes many of the same features alongside added built-in keyboard navigation and UI … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Splice Machine Feature Store launched, Command PATH security fix in Go, and Sensory VoiceHub released
The newly announced Splice Machine Feature Store is designed to help companies implement machine learning in their operations by providing data scientists with actionable real-time data and by reducing the complexity of feature engineering. “The old way of doing things meant data science operations were simply not scalable. The Splice Machine Feature Store enables you … continue reading
Infragistics’ Indigo.Design App Builder preview released
The developer preview of Indigo.Design App Builder by Infragistics is now available. It is a digital design platform that streamlines app creation from design to code by enabling collaboration between designers and developers, according to the company. Creating the user interface of an application takes up to 60% of the total time spent on an … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Ionic Capacitor 3.0 beta released, GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0, and Accenture acquires Wolox
Ionic has announced the beta release of Ionic Capacitor 3.0. The new version of the cross-platform runtime includes improvements to community involvement, adaptability, first-class APIs, and developer experience and productivity. Ionic also added the Proposals repo to make it easier to plug in ideas into a project by creating proposals as well as gauge interest … continue reading
Microsoft on how open source and software development can improve in 2021
2020 was a big year for open source. Sixty million new repositories were created last year, and more than 56 million developers are now on GitHub, according to GitHub’s Octoverse report. This prompted Microsoft to lay out a few things developers can do to improve their engagement with open source moving forward. The first lesson … continue reading
SD Times news digest: GridGain 8.8 released, Aerospike Connect for Presto, and LLVM 11.0.1 released
The latest release of GridGain’s in-memory computing platform includes enhanced support for its multi-tier database engine. The dictionary-based cache entry compression is now capable of compression ratios of up to 60% on real-world scenarios. The introduction of defragmentation reduces data files and frees up disk space while storing current cached data durability on a disk. … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux is an enterprise-grade server OS that CloudLinux released to replace CentOS. According to the company, it will serve as a free Linux OS for the community, and be ready within the first quarter of this year. Right after Red Hat announced that it’s CentOS stable release is no longer under development last month, CloudLinux … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Harness reaches $1.7 billion valuation, Dynatrace integrates with Snyk Intel data, and WhiteSource expands native support for IDEs
Software delivery platform Harness announced that it will use its recent $115 million in funding to grow its engineering team, support global expansion plans, and extend its intelligent software delivery platform vision. Harness provides an end-to-end platform for intelligent software delivery that implements machine learning to detect the quality of deployments. “Our goal is to … continue reading
