Developer Snapshots: Smaller news of the week

For the weekend, here's a brief overview of everything that didn't make it into the news, but which we still think is exciting:

• OpenAI is now making the image generation known from ChatGPT available via API. The functions of the gpt-image-1 model can thus be integrated into your applications. According to the announcement, the model has world knowledge and displays text correctly.
• JetBrains publishes the basic version of the Mellum coding model as open source on Hugging Face. The 4B model specializes in code completion for Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, PHP, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, Rust and Ruby. Further special models for coding are to follow.
• The JavaScript engine V8 now understands explicit compile hints, which tell it which files a web application requires directly at startup and which the engine can only recompile if necessary. The command //# allFunctionsCalledOnLoad at the top of a file causes Chrome 136 to use it immediately (eager compilation).
• With an update for the Auth platform, Google is making it easier to register and update projects. The platform will also delete clients that have not been used for six months.

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• Versions 7.1 of the management tools dbForge SQL Tools and Studio for SQL Server support new databases: SQL Server 2025, SSMS 21 Preview 5 and Windows Server 2025. db Forge Edge now also works with these platforms.
• Over 160 updates and bug fixes come with version 7.13 of OpenAPI Tools. There is a new Kotlin Misk server generator and the dependencies of the Maven plug-in are based on more recent versions.

• The package manager pnpm comes with a small change in version 10.10: The hooks preResolution, importPackage and fetchers can now be loaded from the local pnpmfile. There are also several patches, for example for the cd command when shellEmulator is set to true.
• Apache NiFi 2.4 now has a BitBucket client and a Flow Action Reporter interface of the Framework API for the Flow Configuration History. There are also new box processors. NiFi now also supports IAM authentication from AWS MSK (Kafka) and the OAuth controller service recognizes JWT Bearer Flow.
• The company Akka (formerly Lightbend) is offering developers new deployment options, especially for highly scalable Agentic AI systems. While the Akka SDK released in November 2024 previously required the Akka platform to operate distributed systems, developers will be able to deploy to any cloud infrastructure in future – thanks to the self-managed Akka Nodes.

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