The new IntelliJ 2025.3 pauses frequently.
This is largely due to the new slick Island theme.
I'm expecting a quick fix, but until then better switch back to one of the older themes (e.g. Light).
There is also an annoying migration popup for the move from SQL conzole to SQL files. If you have configured a global datasource, it popz up in EVERY project your open. Issue..
A set of chrome/edge browser extensions that have been popular for years, turned into malware after an update last year (2024). The extensions, among which Clean Master is the most popular, were publised by Star Laboratary Technology Co. , a Chinese company.
The extensions run malicious JavaScript with full browser access and collecting data on all operations and send them to China.
Spring boot 4 was released this week, on the heels of the Spring Framework 7 release. Here are some highlights:
It is a sad day for liberty and privacy in the EU.
Online platforms must monitor activity related to child abuse and take measures to limit the risks. take measures to limit for child abuse.
Failing to do so, they can be fined. Platforms which are said to have a high risk of containing such material can be forced to implement measures by a national governing authority.
This implies that they will be required to scan all communication. Child abuse is being abused as an argument to scan all communication.
In Belgium we have a long standing right for private communication in postal letters (briefgeheim). We are now losing a part of our freedom.
Italian boffins discovered that trying to sidestep the guards that limit what an AI system will do for you (hacking...) works an order of magnitude better if you phrase your request as a poem.
The approach works accorss all popular models, though some are more vulnerable then others.
This suggest that prompting systems using non standard language will give you a better success rate when trying to abuse AI systems.
| Version | Name | Release | Major new features |
| 25 (LTS) | 9/2025 | simplifications: top level methods, instance main, IO package module imports | |
| 16 | 3/2021 | record | |
| 15 | 9/2020 | Text blocks | |
| 14 | 3/2020 | Switch expressions | |
| 11 (LTS) | 9/2018 | Run (single file) source code | |
| 9 | 2016 | JSR 294: modular JDK (Jigsaw) Searchable javadoc | |
| 8 (LTS) | Spider | 3/2014 | JSR 335: lambda expressions Collections Stream Framework JSR 310: Date and Time API Compact profiles JSR 308: annotations outside declarations (on usage) |
| 7 | Dolphin | 7/2011 | language (project coin): switch on strings, multi catch, try with autoclosing resources, empty generics (diamond operator), binary literal, underscores in numbers NIO.2 file handling Fork/Join concurrency JAX-WS 2.2 (SOAP 1.2, WS-I 2.0, metro 2.0) |
| 6 | Mustang | 12/2006 | JSR 223: scripting language support JSR 224: JAX-WS2.0 (metro 1.x) JSR 221: JDBC 4 (driver autoloading)) Perfomance enhancements in synchronisation and garbage collection |
| 5 | Tiger | 9/2004 | language (JSR 201): Enumerations, autoboxing, enhanced for loop, static import, vararg JSR 175: Annotations JSR 14: Generics java.util.concurrent java.util.Scanner RMI automatic stub generation |
| 1.4 | Merlin | 2/2002 | language: assert regular expressions JSR 51: NIO JSR 47: java.util.logging JSR 54: JDBC 3 (metadata API, autogenerated keys, transaction savepoints, multiple || resultsets/statement) security and cryptography |
| 1.3 | Kestrel | 5/2000 | HotSpot JVM RMI/CORBA support JNDI |
| 1.2 | Playground | 12/1998 | Collections Swing JIT compiler Browser plugin JDBC 2.1 (datasources, distributed transactions, connection pooling,RowSet, ResultSet backscrolling and updating ) |
| 1.1 | 2/1997 | AWT events reorganisation inner classes JavaBeans JDBC RMI reflection | |
| 1.0 | 1/1996 |
Jakarta EE is the successor of Java Enterprise Edition. The name change follows the transition of the governance from Oracle to the Eclipse organisation. Jakarta EE9 is simply taking over from Java EE 8 without functional changes. It changes package namespaces to jakarta.* and removes some obsolete API's. You can find the Java EE evolution up to Java EE8 in an earlier post. From Jakarta EE9 the components are evolving.
If a cell is empty in the above table, the version is the same as in the previous release.
An X means a specification is removed.
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