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 that we still think is exciting:

• With version 18, Premium and Ultimate customers of GitLab can use the coding assistant Duo at no extra charge. Duo offers intelligent chat and suggestions while coding. There is also the paid version Duo Enterprise, which offers more advanced AI functions, such as code reviews.
• JetBrains is offering early access to IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 to anyone interested in trying out new functions early on, such as improvements to the interface, updates for Spring and Maven 4 and bundled workspaces.
• CodeCanvas 2025.1 from JetBrains is free of charge, but limited to one Kubernetes cluster in the AWS environment. The number of users and cloud deployments is unlimited. The tool can also be integrated as a plug-in in VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.
• After a three-year break, Oracle has released a new community edition of Solaris, which contains "all the new features, but not the last round of bug fixes" of the current commercial update. Oracle has updated a variety of programming languages and platforms, such as gcc, libc, gdb, LLVM, Go, Java, Python, PHP, Rust, Node.js and more. Oracle delivers Gnome 45 on an X server as the desktop.

• Podman 5.5 reports two minor breaking changes in the Go bindings of the REST API. In addition, the tool now requires Go 1.23. New functions include health checks, which now have the status stopped and avoid database access wherever possible.
• The IDE for IDEs, Eclipse Theia, has been released in version 1.61 and with it its own decoupling: Theia IDE. New features include context-based chat suggestions from the AI agent. However, the publishers have removed the self-developed but outdated Git extension and recommend the corresponding VS Code extension instead.

• The CNCF project Kyverno has taken up the cause of policy-as-code for Kubernetes. Version 1.14 brings two new policy types: ValidatingPolicy and ImageValidatingPolicy. The service also extends support for the Common Expression Language (CEL).
• k0rdent 0.3 improves the management of multi-cluster systems based on Kubernetes and extends the capabilities of observability. There are also native events that are visualized on a new cluster deployment dashboard. Furthermore, admins can now also manage service templates in higher-level clusters.
• The reactive extension of the Vertx JVM has been released in version 5 and now supports Java modules, gRPC and JSON wire. In addition, the OpenAPI modules now handle binary data. However, the publisher has finally dropped the asynchronous callback model in favor of the future model.

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