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JetBrains goes live with Junie AI agent, updates AI assistant, adds free tier

1 week ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Developer tools maker JetBrains has declared its Junie AI coding agent production-ready, updated its older AI Assistant with support for new models, and introduced a free tier for users of its latest 2025.1 IDEs.Offering two distinct AI tools is confusing, but JetBrains regards them as complementary. The difference is that AI Assistant provides code-related help and AI suggestions, while Junie is an agent capable of multi-step tasks, including writing code and running tests.
JRuby 10 released with jump to Ruby 3.4, Java 21, despite loss of Red Hat sponsorship

1 week ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

The team behind JRuby has released version 10 with a jump compatibility to Ruby 3.4, a minimum Java version of 21, full optimization by default, and faster startup. JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby language on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The previous version was compatible with Ruby 3.1, released at the end of 2021, making it out of date with current Ruby features. JRuby 9.x had also maintained compatibility with Java 8, limiting its capabilities.
PHP security audit of critical code reveals flaws, fixed in new release

1 week ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

The PHP Foundation has reported the results of a security audit of the most critical parts of the PHP source code, which turned up several high severity issues, fixed in the new version 8.4.6 released last week. The code investigated was php-src which is the PHP interpreter. Flaws discovered included:PHP logs could be tampered with because of a bug in the parsing logic for received data.
20 years of Git: 'Never a big thing for me,' says inventor Linus Torvalds • DEVCLASS

1 week ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Git, the dominant version control system for code, is 20 years old this month, but inventor Linus Torvalds said that it “was never a big thing for me” since it was only made to support the work on the Linux kernel.
QCon London: Microsoft’s C# now a contrarian choice?

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Sam Cox, co-founder and CTO of a start-up called Tracebit, spoke at QCon London about his decision to use C# as a contrarian choice – showing the problems Microsoft has in convincing the wider development community of the benefit of its .NET platform. Cox needed to develop Tracebit, a security product which works by creating canary services; if they get accessed, there may be an intrusion. The initial target was AWS, the database manager was PosgreSQL, but what should the programming language be?
Encourage the AI coding skeptics, curb the enthusiasts, says software exec at dev talk • DEVCLASS

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

One of those most pressing questions for developers right now is the future of coding. “The Anthropic CEO says that in three to six months, AI will be writing 90 percent of the code software developers were in charge of,” Birgitta Böckeler told attendees at her talk on AI Coding State of Play, to which attendees responded with nervous laughter. The QCon developer conference is under way in London in the UK this week, and there is a distinct AI flavor to the content.
VS Code extension marketplace wars: Cursor users hit roadblocks

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Users of Cursor, an AI coding editor based on the same open source foundation as Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code), are experiencing new problems with popular Microsoft extensions, such as for C and C++. A developer complained that the “C/C++ extension is broken” although this worked previously. Reports state that version 1.17.62 works but 1.18.21 and later do not.
Python now has a standard package lock file format – though winning full adoption will be a challenge • DEVCLASS

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

The office Python team is adopting PEP 751, which specifies package dependencies for an application, enabling reproducible installs without on-the-fly dependency resolution. Python core developer Paul Moore stated that “this is full, final acceptance, not provisional,” with the hope of avoiding delay before the new standard is implemented and used. That said, not all existing package managers are likely to replace their existing native lock file formats, though they will have some support.
What next for Vue.js? Official report promises fewer painful upgrades and describes challenges with forthcoming Vapor Mode

3 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

The State of Vue.js 2025 report, created with the support of the Vue and Nuxt teams, shows the maturity of this popular front-end framework. Meanwhile, Vue creator Evan You says that Vapor Mode, a big optimization feature, has been delayed by compatibility issues. Vue.js is a popular alternative to React which is enjoyed for its ease of getting started, though React still dominates.
The risks of GitHub Actions: Researcher describes severe potential of CodeQL vulnerability, now fixed

3 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

A researcher has described how a vulnerability in GitHub’s CodeQL, a tool for detecting security issues, had the potential to infect most repositories using it, including stealing source code and executing malicious code in workflows, until it was fixed in January this year. According to the researcher, GitHub has found no evidence of this being used to compromise its platform or systems.