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NEWS WATCH AngularJS long-term support discontinued Four years after announcing discontinuation plans, Angular has officially discontinued long-term support (LTS) for AngularJS. AngularJS is the first version of the Angular framework, which was released in 2010. All subsequent released versions were called Angular. It had initially planned to end LTS in July 2021, but because of COVID-19, it decided to push that date back by six months to December 31, 2021. The Angular development team is urging developers to migrate all AngularJS applications to Angular 2 or higher. Last year the team published a blog post detailing ways to prepare applications to migrate, such as using ngUpgrade, which is a library that allows Angular and AngularJS to be run in the same application to allow for incremental migration. Going forward, CDN links for AngularJS will remain active and AngularJS.org will still stay online. The team will also archive the AngularJS repository on GitHub and provide read-only access to code,
issue, and pull request history. Finally, npm packages for AngularJS will still be available on npm and bower, but they will be marked as deprecated.
Aptiv to acquire Wind River Vehicle technology company Aptiv has announced its intent to acquire the embedded systems company Wind River from TPG Capital. The acquisition is valued at $4.3 billion and is expected to close mid-year. According to Aptiv, this acquisition will enable the company to expand into several high-value industries and produce innovations across connected devices like vehicles. Wind River Studio will become integrated into Aptiv’s SVA platform to further innovate on automotive software solutions. Wind River will continue to operate as a stand-alone unit within Aptiv, led by Wind River’s current CEO Kevin Dallas.
Open Source Institute forms to offer online training The Open Source Institute (OpenSI) is being formed
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n Allstacks has announced the appointment of Jamie Howard as its new VP of Engineering. He previously held roles at companies such as Qualcomm, Red Hat, and WebAssign, and also served as an Army Infantry Squad Leader. n Sharan Foga has joined Instaclustr as director of community and developer relations. She has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry and has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation since 2008 and is currently one of its board members. She is also an active project management committee member for the Apache ComDev team, Apache OFBiz, Apache Kibble, and the Apache Incubator.
through a collaboration between the University of Canberra and Instaclustr. OpenSI will focus on open source training, certification, and research and development. The first online course offered through OpenSI will be Developer Training and Certification for the event streaming platform Apache Kafka. This training will provide software engineers and system admins with the skills to develop and operate Apache Kafka. The course will include interactive workshops, webinar, online forums, self-paced assignment, and assessments. There will also be an optional exam that can be taken to receive certification through OpenSI for Apache Kafka. Other courses are in the works for other open source technologies like Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and Cadence.
.NET MAUI preview supports Fluent UI Microsoft recently announced the release of .NET MAUI Preview 11. As a part of this release, users will gain access to the first batch of Fluent UI control styling, multi-window implementations, control fea-
tures, and another set of iOS type alignment. This preview runs on the latest preview of .NET 6 and is available with Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2. Windows 11 brings users new UI styling with the updated Fluent Design System. In .NET MAUI Preview 11, users will experience initial updates to Button, Editor, and Entry.
Visual Studio preview brings productivity features for Git Microsoft recently announced the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.1. This release includes new features that align with themes of Visual Studio 2022, such as productivity. New Git productivity features will make day-to-day work much easier, according to Microsoft. Developers will now be able to compare the current branch in a repository with other branches. This is useful when preparing for a pull request or before deleting a branch. Another new Git feature is enhanced detached head support, which allows developers to check out a commit and go back to a previous point in history to run or test code. Developers will also be able to quick-
n Databricks has made Naveen Zutshi the company’s new chief information officer. He spent the past six years as CIO of Palo Alto Networks where he helped the company expand into new security categories. Before that he was the senior vice president of technology at Gap. n Palo Alto Networks is working to grow in new markets and is appointing Helmut Reisigner to CEO of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America (LATAM) to drive this growth. He will work closely with company president BJ Jenkins to drive acceleration of the global growth strategy.
