Development:
Java 18 is Now Available. The nine (9) JEPs in this final feature set.
Java News Roundup by InfoQ: JDK 18 GA, JMC 8.2, Spring Updates, MicroStream 7.0-Beta1, WildFly 26.1-Beta1.
JHipster Native Blueprint Supports GraalVM Native Image. A native image starts faster, is smaller, and uses less memory compared to a traditional application running on a JVM.
Career and IT market:
Apple Pay closes loopholes that allowed Russian users to pay with Mir cards. Since March 24, uploading new Mir cards to the service has been unavailable.
Go read former Tesla employees’ experiences with racism in their own words. Two employees describe being “blacklisted”.
With work-life ‘integration,’ say goodbye to the 9-5 workday. Organizations and employees are in the midst of discovering what it means to blend professional and personal life.