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:

• Version 4 of the Pascal development environment Lazarus has been released and comes with new event types, an extension of the Cocoa widget set for macOS and various components, new debugger options and optional docking in the IDE. There is a warning for Mac users: "macOS Ventura 13.6 has made the lldb worse, so starting the application in the debugger takes a while. Especially the first time."
• The manufacturer of the graph database Neo4J presents Aura Graph Analytics, a serverless platform for data analysis that offers over 65 graph algorithms. According to the announcement, users do not need their own infrastructure or any prior knowledge of graph technology or the Cypher query language.
• Private, university and non-commercial C and C++ users can now use JetBrains' CLion development environment free of charge. This license change has already been made for the tools RustRover, Rider (.NET) and WebStorm.
• Uno Platform 6.0 has been released and, according to the development team, is the biggest release to date. It features a new, unified rendering engine – that is designed to significantly speed up startup times and UI rendering – and elevates the paid tool suite Uno Platform Studio to "generally available" status. The team emphasizes that Uno Platform itself will always remain open source. It can be used to create cross-platform .NET applications.

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• The JavaScript runtime Deno 2.3 brings new features for subcommands such as deno compile and deno fmt as well as improved performance. The new version also allows local npm packages to be used. To do this, the local package names must also be present in the npm registry.
• Atlassian has released the beta version of a server with Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) to make data from the Teamwork Graph usable for external AI tools. Users can, for example, create and edit Jira issues and Confluence pages together with Anthropic's AI assistant Claude as a client.

• The new version 3.5 of the Couch database promises a performance gain of up to forty percent. This is to be achieved through "truly parallel reading independent of writing", as stated in the announcement. The binary packages also contain Erlang 26, which should contribute to higher JIT performance.
• AWS has announced that it will discontinue support for the .NET library DynamoDB Session State Provider on November 14, 2025. From then on, there will be no more updates, not even for critical security vulnerabilities. The manufacturer recommends switching to the .NET Distributed Cache Provider.
• Superbase, the open source alternative to Firebase, offers new functions for the MCP server in the April update. It now works with VS Code and can generate and provide edge functions. Apart from that, admins can define roles for users in the tool.

If you are missing an important topic, we look forward to receiving your e-mail.

betterCode() API – heise conference on May 15 and 23

With twelve presentations, a panel discussion and a workshop, the program of the online conference betterCode() API on 15 and 23 May offers a comprehensive overview of the topic of APIs. The presentations will cover concepts, design, testing and maintenance of interfaces. A debate will be dedicated to the question: API or Code First, and in the workshop on June 4, participants will practice API security.

Topics include, for example:

• API MythBusters – Don't believe everything you hear!
• Panel discussion: Code-first or design-first?
• How do you "hack" an API? From attack to effective defense
• Automating API Pipelines with APIOps: Accelerating Deployment and Ensuring Quality

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