173: The Red Zone

Catchups

• Happy New Year!
• Log4j Issues, fall out, ranty commentary
• And now PostgreSQL JDBC gets a 9.8 CVE:

Java Stuff

• Java 18 set for March 22, 2022
  • The new features in Java 18
  • Mark Reinhold: There are no unresolved P1 bugs in build 36, so that is the first JDK 18 Release Candidate. Binaries available here, as usual: https://jdk.java.net/18/
• Java 19 builds are already available
• MicroProfile 5 out
• Helidon 2.4.2 released
• Quarkus 2.7.1 released
• Continuations
  • [GR-34749] Continuation support independent of Project Loom. #4114 - merged.
  • https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.html
  • Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for Java by Alan Bateman - YouTube - Early Continuation API sample
• JEP draft: Sequenced Collections
• JEP 423: Region Pinning for G1
• I believe I read somewhere JEP 389 (Foreign Linker) are coming out of the incubator soon - Using libsodium with JEP 389 is an interesting example.
• Java's Options for Options - it hurts just reading this, let alone the reddit comments
• AZUL Cloud Compiler
• Jetbrains Fleet - Next Gen IDE/Editor

Other Stuff

• Apple Removes Python 2.7 in upcoming release of macOS
• Apache Groovy 4 Released
• No Such Thing As Clean Code