Unsupported Operation 73Java* JDK 7u4 released, AND for the Mac! + JRE 7u6 for mac available as developer preview, brings applets/javafx etc + 7u4 will become the default JRE for end users in a few weeks as well. Finally, we’ll be able to say that “Java 7 is released - proper like” + Some new things added to the dist * Doug Lea proposes extensions in JDK7 for Concurrency for lambas * Pig 0.10 released * New release of WebGoat - OWASP “deliberately insecure webapp” for teaching purposes - never come across it before.

Google* Play Maps Cube - requires Chrome

Apache* Apache Karaf 2.2.7 * Cassandra 1.1 * Chemistry OpenCMIS 0.7.0 * Ivy 2.3.0-RC1 * Gora 0.2 * Jackrabbit 2.2.12

Maven* New maven compiler plugin soon to be released, pulls in new maven-plexus-javac which speeds up multi-module builds by around 30%, you can use it now by adding the dependency manually.

Misc* Crash goes 1.0 * Groovy 2.0 is as fast as Java