Development

WhatsApp is reportedly developing new features in its beta versions, including usernames and screen sharing capabilities. These features may enhance user experience by offering unique usernames and providing options to share screens during video calls.

JetBrains Compose Multiplatform reaches alpha for iOS, providing developers with the same API across all major platforms. The toolkit, based on Google Jetpack Compose, offers Material and Material 3 widgets, extending its capabilities to iOS through the Skiko graphics library.

Cloudflare Workers now support outbound TCP socket creation with the connect() API, offering developers seamless access to TCP-based infrastructures, including databases, directly from a worker environment.

Microsoft has released Fluent 2, the latest version of its design system. Influenced by the success of Fluent 1, the new version promises improved collaboration, creativity, and a more seamless design-to-development handoff process. With updated features such as cohesive color schemes, token system, standardized corners, and accessibility notation, Fluent 2 has already been implemented in Microsoft's recent Teams redesign.

Upcoming changes to Windows 11 will give users the option to remove the Microsoft News feed from the widgets panel.

PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 is now accessible, featuring improvements in query execution, logical replication, and developer experience.

EPUB 3.3, an interchange format for digital documents, is now recognized as a web standard by the W3C.

Google introduces AI technology into Google Ads, allowing marketers to benefit from tailored assets and improved ad relevance. The AI capabilities will soon be implemented in automatically created assets and Performance Max campaigns, leading to more personalized and higher-performing ads.

The upcoming Microsoft .NET 8 framework will strengthen web app performance by combining server-side and client-side rendering with the Blazor component model. This will involve server-side rendering with Blazor components, streaming rendering, and improved navigation and form handling.

Arc, a job platform for remote software developers, launches HireAI to make recruitment easier.

Microsoft is set to enhance the developer experience on Windows with the introduction of new features like the GitHub Copilot X integration, Dev Home, and Dev Drive.

Microsoft unveils Azure AI Studio, a capability in the Azure OpenAI Service, to help businesses create their AI-powered copilots using OpenAI's machine learning models.

Red Hat introduces Podman Desktop 1.0, a user-friendly, open-source graphical desktop client for managing containers locally and remotely on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

Spotify is reportedly working on AI technology capable of replicating podcast hosts' voices for tailored host-read ads, opening up new advertising possibilities. The AI-generated ads could facilitate geo-targeting and creating ads in different languages.

GitLab 16 introduces an enterprise-grade, AI-powered DevSecOps platform aimed at bolstering security and expediting software development. The new release integrates AI features alongside security testing, observability, and proactive vulnerability detection. GitLab Dedicated will be released this summer, specifically tailored for organizations in regulated industries.

Microsoft reaches TypeScript 5.1's release candidate stage, updating developer features such as return statements, accessor pairs, and JSX element handling, while improving snippet completions, code typing, and documentation parsing.

JetBrains' Compose Multiplatform, a cross-platform UI framework for Kotlin, now includes iOS support in its alpha release.

Microsoft unveils 'Guidance', a next-generation programming language designed to produce natural language responses and simplify programming tasks.

The upcoming Android 14 is set to enhance App Pairs functionality by allowing users to 'save' app pairings, streamlining multitasking capabilities across Android devices and catering to foldable and tablets.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.6 featuring significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while the 17.7 preview further improves productivity with new Git visualization and Blazor WebAssembly features in the development process.

Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials have announced an update to target Android 13, along with a smooth transition plan to .NET MAUI, the future of cross-platform development.

Meta has developed CodeCompose, an AI-driven code generation tool analogous to GitHub's Copilot.

Google announces that its Privacy Sandbox will disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024.

The Ruby 3.3.0 update showcases an experimental pure-Ruby JIT compiler, RJIT, which stands as an alternative to the YJIT compiler.