Episode 84

Unsupported Operation

Unsupported Operation 84

Misc

• Not really “new”, but I rediscovered the fact that since Git 1.8.2, that submodules now support following a branch rather than a fixed commit SHA1 - this actually makes them somewhat usable.
• JDK8 Build 91 available - Sadly, this didn't fix my method handle issue.
• Atlassian JIRA 6 was released - teases with Bamboo 5 updates
• Yourkit Profiler 2013 EAP launched, personal licences only US$99 until June 4, 2013.
• Spring 4 announced, indicates support for JSE8 and Groovy 2 as the first class language, pushing Groovy 2 bigtime.
• Action Launcher Pro 1.7 for Android was released - best launcher ever. Adds support for icon packs and just makes it that bit more... awesome.
• Big changes for Redline Smalltalk - now scans classpath for .st files, so works nicely with artifacts/jar files etc. etc.
• Google Code removes file downloads

Maven - Spotlight Plugin of the Week

• maven-shade-plugin

Apache

• Apache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 available for testing/voting. Release Notes.
• Maven ShadePlugin, version 2,1 supporting the above 3.1 release
• Open Web Beans 1.2
• Apache Ant 1.9.1
• Apache Wicket 6.8
• Commons-Logging 1.1.3 (please still remove it from your archives)
• Subversion 1.8-rc2
• JSPWiki incubating 2.9.1

Clojure

• MD did a short clojure-maven-plugin history presentation at the 2nd Auckland Clojure Meetup, this seems to have awaked the bug reporters...
• Released 1.3.16 and then followed up with 1.3.17 of the clojure-maven-plugin

Scala

• Scala 2.10.2-RC1 now available
• dispatch 0.10.1 released, HTTP client library
• Scala on Android - new book from Lean Pub, being written by Geoffroy Couprie (@gcouprie)

Groovy

• Groovy 2.1 showcased and goes type checking mad
• Groovy 2.1 type checking extensions for SQL inside a string discussed
• Cedric shows Groovy type checking printf type and number of params Docs for type checking extensions released by Cedric
• Gaelyk 2.0 released