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The Uno Platform team has simultaneously rolled out two significant updates: version 6.4 of the platform framework and version 2.0 of its premium tooling, Uno Platform Studio. Released on November 11th, 2025, these updates bring official support for .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, along with a new era of AI‑assisted, ‘agentic’ development features.
By Edin Kapić
Grafana Labs has released Grafana Mimir 3.0. This is a significant advancement for the open-source, horizontally scalable time series database. The release features a new design that separates read and write operations. This change greatly boosts performance, reliability, and cost efficiency for organizations handling metrics at scale.
By Claudio Masolo
Netflix engineers presented their architecture for a centralized data-deletion platform at QCon San Francisco, addressing a critical yet rarely discussed system design challenge. The platform manages deletion across heterogeneous data stores while balancing durability, availability, and correctness, processing 76.8 billion row deletions across 1,300 datasets with zero data loss incidents.
By Eran Stiller
Broadcom released Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0, introducing first-class REST API versioning, JSpecify annotations for standardized null safety across the Spring portfolio, built-in resilience features such as retry and concurrency throttling, Jackson 3 for JSON processing, and modular autoconfiguration. The baselines are JDK 17 (while embracing JDK 25), Jakarta EE 11, and Kotlin 2.2.
By Karsten Silz
Google has released the new Jetpack Navigation 3 library, which redesigns from the ground up notification handling in Android apps. The new library gives full control on the back stack and integrates seamlessly with Jetpack Compose's state management.
By Sergio De Simone
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