Microsoft is introducing a way for developers to get new features in their Windows Terminal installation before they are released. Windows Terminal is on a quarterly release cycle, meaning that an update is published every three months. To get new features faster, you can now install the Windows Terminal Canary channel. This new channel ships … continue reading
Tidelift has added new intelligence capabilities that will help customers minimize risk related to using open-source components. These capabilities are being added to Tidelift Subscription, which is a program that provides evaluations on security, licensing, and maintenance risks of open-source software. The company has access to open-source package intelligence data through partnerships with thousands of … continue reading
Frontend development company Vercel is releasing a new tool that uses generative AI to help developers quickly create new website and user interface (UI) components. Called v0, the new tool enables you to use plain text prompts to describe what you want and then receive a component generated based on your request. “With v0, we’re … continue reading
OpenPubkey is an open-source cryptographic protocol that hopes to strengthen security in the open source ecosystem. It makes use of the authentication framework OpenID Connect, enabling users to sign artifacts using their OpenID identity. This enables the use of supply chain security features like signed builds, deployments, and code commits. It was developed at BastionZero, … continue reading
The W3C has announced the approval of the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which is a set of recommendations that web developers should follow to make their websites more accessible. WCAG 2.2 adds nine new success criteria. The first three are related to keyboard focus. There is a minimum and enhanced … continue reading
In 2023, there was an 18% decline in the number of open-source projects that are considered to be “actively maintained.” This is according to Sonatype’s Annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report. The report claims that only 11% of open-source projects are actually actively maintained. Despite these flaws, Sonatype still says that 96% of … continue reading
Having a healthy work culture can have many benefits for software teams, such as burnout prevention, increased productivity, and higher rates of job satisfaction. According to Google Cloud’s 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, having a healthy culture also results in 30% higher performance than those without. In its study, Google ranked culture based on … continue reading
Amazon is releasing a new data management service to enable collaboration on data between different areas of an organization. Amazon DataZone enables cataloging, discovery, analysis, sharing, and governance of data between its producers and consumers. The data producers provide the data catalog with structured data assets, and then consumers can subscribe to those assets and … continue reading
Android 14 has been under development for several months, and finally the source code is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is the repository where official Android code is stored and where manufacturers can go to grab the source code and create their own variants. Many of the updates in Android … continue reading
Azul has announced a new feature that catalogs the source code used by production Java applications so that unused code can be removed. Code Inventory collects detailed information about code information within the JVM to provide a report on what is used across the Java workloads running in production. The report also includes the date … continue reading
The mobile testing company Kobiton has released a new version of its test automation platform. With the latest updates, the company hopes to help organizations remove “major bottlenecks” in the testing and delivery of mobile apps. To help make testing more efficient, the company is introducing several AI capabilities. These include support for Appium script … continue reading
Boomi is enhancing its connectivity and integration platform with Boomi GPT, a conversational AI that customers can use to automate tasks in the Boomi platform. It was trained on data from over 200 million of Boomi’s integrations and can enable customers to connect applications, data, processes, people, and devices. Similar to ChatGPT, users will provide … continue reading
