Some Copilot agent activity was omitted from usage reports or attributed to Copilot CLI. IDE updates restore reporting, but historical gaps cannot be repaired.

GitLab is giving development teams more control over the packages AI agents add to their software and the credentials used during builds.

Microsoft has made Linux container support generally available through Windows Subsystem for Linux, giving developers a built-in option for running containerized workloads on Windows while allowing IT ...

Quarkus 4.0.0.Beta1 requires Java 21 or later, ending support for Java 17. Jackson 3 and changes to Hibernate database defaults introduce compatibility checks for existing applications. The beta adds ...

Azul Prime can stream previously optimized code to new JVM instances at startup, reducing repeated compilation work. Azul claims two to five times faster warm-up than standard OpenJDK, with potential ...

If you haven't seen the latest Java developer productivity report from Perforce, you should check it out. Written by Perforce CTO Rod Cope and developer tools exec Jeff Michael, the "2025 Java ...

Ol' Linus is at it again. Outspoken Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week, in his usual imitable style, blasted a volunteer developer for not fixing a problem and basically "fired" the guy from ...

Output rose sharply: Faros found that higher AI adoption was associated with a 34% increase in task completion per developer and a 66% increase in epics completed per developer. Quality and review ...

Loop engineering is emerging as a way to design repeatable AI agent workflows that let coding agents build, test, revise, and continue working with less direct human prompting. Andrew Ng frames the ...

Testing mobile apps can be a pain, especially with the wide range of OS versions in the Android ecosystem and myriad devices with different screen sizes, resolutions, capabilities and so on -- while ...

Helidon 27 ties new framework releases to Java’s release cycle, while retaining Helidon 4.5 as the long-term support option for teams delaying migration.

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...