Developer Snapshot: Last Week’s Little News

Here’s a little overview of all the things that didn’t make the news for the weekend, but we still think are exciting:

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• First Fish beta version 4.0Brings several changes and modifications, including a port of the core code to Rust, new keyboard shortcuts, and expanded compatibility with modern terminals, while also removing or updating some older features. Fish is a command line shell designed for ease of use and modern features like auto-suggestions and syntax highlighting.
• Docker Desktop 4.37 The AI ​​in Docker Hub provides direct access to the catalog and allows critical tasks like starting and stopping Docker Desktop to be performed directly from the command line. The update also includes component updates, bug fixes, and stability modifications.
• version 1.44 JetBrains Development Environment Fleet A new user interface has been introduced designed to optimize the user experience through revised workflow organization and easier navigation. The update also provides support for the Zig programming language.
• For GUI Toolkit Slint version 1.9 First. The update brings revised documentation, a new live preview item inspector, and support for bundled translations to simplify localization. The documentation has been completely redesigned and offers, among other things, new search functions.
• The development team behind Tabnine, an AI-powered code assistant, has figured out how it works”Code provenance and attribution“, which is designed to enable companies to optimize the use of large language models (LLMs) for software development tasks while reducing the risk of IP infringement from unlicensed code entries. This feature is available publicly Identifies AI-generated code hits for consistency with GitHub and indicates the source repository and license type.
• CameraX version 1.4Google’s Jetpack library brings expanded HDR capabilities, preview stabilization, and a new effects framework designed to optimize Android camera apps. There’s also the first insight into the seamless integration of CameraX into Jetpack Compose.

• For Qt, a cross-platform framework for developing graphical user interfaces First beta for version 6.9 – Final release is announced for March 2025. The beta provides the first glimpse of what’s new, including the ability to create empty arrays with QJniArray, revised support for language and time zone settings in QLocale and QTimeZone, and support for 64-bit types in QMetaEnum and QFlags.

• Confluent has released a JavaScript client for Apache Kafka, intended to enable developers to integrate Kafka into JavaScript applications and thus extend the reach of Kafka beyond the Java environment. this should be development As per announcement post Facilitate the integration of Apache Kafka into JavaScript environments and promote the use of Kafka across a wide range of applications and technology stacks.
• Second developer preview of Android 16 Among other things, brings API for haptic effects.
• open source one Smart Home Platform OpenHAB 4.3 There are 18 new add-ons on board and the UI has been expanded with a log viewer and cheesy actions to initiate tasks.

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The developer editorial team wishes all readers a Merry Christmas and a good start to the New Year 2025. Until then!

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