GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.9 is now available with more features that can help organizations collaborate better, gain better observability, and have faster workflows. Among its highlights are a new time-based view in GitHub Projects, as well as the ability to standardize issues with tools such as issue forms. GitHub Projects has been enhanced with … continue reading
BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Directus, an open-source software company focused on helping organizations build composable experiences, today introduced a new functionality within its open data platform that enables front-end developers to build real-time capabilities into their applications via WebSockets. Innovative organizations of all sizes turn to Directus to power and scale their data-driven applications. Many … continue reading
A new report by Mend.io found the top three most reliable packages for npm, Maven, and PyPi. The top packages for each are: Npm: prettier-eslint np Jest-cli Maven: org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-provider-gitexe com.github.ekryd.sortpom:sortpom-maven-plugin Org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin PyPi: Pulumi Botocore-stubs types-python-dateutil The report examined data from Renovate, the company’s automated dependency management tool that leverages crowd-sourced data on over 25 million … continue reading
Apple announced the release of new software tools and technologies that empower developers to create apps for Apple Vision Pro, the company’s first AR headset. The introduction of visionOS, a spatial operating system, within Vision Pro allows users to interact with digital content in their physical environment using the most natural and intuitive inputs available: … continue reading
Harness launched an AI assistant known as AIDA (AI Development Assistant). The company aims to broaden the scope of AI applications to include all aspects of the SDLC. According to Harness, conventional AI tools mainly concentrate on helping with code development, while AIDA enhances the entire process of software development, encompassing activities such as building … continue reading
The developers behind the programming language Rust have announced the release of Rust 1.70.0. One of the changes in this release is that the “sparse” protocol for reading the crates.io index is now enabled by default. The team says that using this protocol to get information from the index will allow for significant performance improvements. … continue reading
Platform engineering has become increasingly important for businesses as platforms have become more complex, spanning DevOps tools, APIs, and other components necessary for effective software development. It’s a delicate balancing act as developers have been calling for more simplified navigation throughout an organization’s platform. According to a whitepaper by Humanitec, just five years ago, platform … continue reading
Engineering managers and individual contributors usually want the same thing: to produce quality work in a way that feels creative and collaborative, all while doing so in a predictable and sustainable way. I’d even say you would struggle to find someone who doesn’t want this type of work agreement. It’s also important to note that … continue reading
Security and resilience solution provider Tidelift has announced that it has been awarded three contracts with the U.S. government, equalling over $3.5 million. With this, the company intends to expand its public sector organization to meet the growing demand for improved cybersecurity supply chain risk management from the U.S. government. According to Tidelift, this effort … continue reading
Google will be making some AI enhancements to its Colab offering, which is a browser-based tool for writing and executing Python code, that is often used by beginners to learn how to code without needing to set up a coding environment. The tool will soon incorporate AI coding features such as code completion, the ability … continue reading
Snapchange is a Rust framework that can be used to fuzz a target binary with minimal modifications, offering useful insight into the process. It works by replaying physical memory snapshots in order to make the fuzzing of various targets more efficient and less complex. As it is agnostic to the target operating system, the snapshot … continue reading
AWS open-sourced a language called Cedar that enables users to easily create and enforce access control policies. It provides a unified framework for policy creation and management across multiple clouds, simplifies policy writing, and supports popular authorization models such as role-based and attribute-based access control. Additionally, AWS has adopted a verification-guided development process to ensure … continue reading
