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Java
- JDK 7u4 released, AND for the Mac!
- JRE 7u6 for mac available as developer preview, brings applets/javafx etc
- 7u4 will become the default JRE for end users in a few weeks as well. Finally, we’ll be able to say that “Java 7 is released - proper like”
- Some new things added to the dist
- Doug Lea proposes extensions in JDK7 for Concurrency for lambas
- Pig 0.10 released
- New release of WebGoat - OWASP “deliberately insecure webapp” for teaching purposes - never come across it before.
- Play Maps Cube - requires Chrome
Apache
- Apache Karaf 2.2.7
- Cassandra 1.1
- Chemistry OpenCMIS 0.7.0
- Ivy 2.3.0-RC1
- Gora 0.2
- Jackrabbit 2.2.12
Maven
- New maven compiler plugin soon to be released, pulls in new maven-plexus-javac which speeds up multi-module builds by around 30%, you can use it now by adding the dependency manually.
Misc
- Crash goes 1.0
- Groovy 2.0 is as fast as Java
