Topic: gitlab
SD Times news digest: Android Basics in Kotlin course; SharePoint Framework 1.13 release candidate; Crystal 1.2
The Android development team announced the release of the final unit of Android Basics in Kotlin, a free programming course initially announced in 2020. Today, over 100,000 beginners have completed their first milestone in the course. Android Basics in Kotlin offers people with no programming experience the education needed to build sample Android apps. With … continue reading
SD Times news digest: GitLab 14.3, Improved Google Play Console user management, and Informatica and Snowflake announces on-prem to cloud modernization program,
GitLab announced the release of GitLab 14.3 with project-level security scan execution policies, next generation SAST to reduce Ruby false positives, group level permissions for protected environments and group access for the GitLab Kubernetes Agent. The project-level DAST and secret detection scan execution policies allow users to require DAST and secret detection scans to run … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Package Hunter
Recently GitLab open-sourced a tool that enables developers and security teams to detect malicious code in app dependencies. Package Hunter analyzes dependencies for both malicious code and other unexpected behavior. It installs the dependencies in a sandbox environment and then reports any suspicious behavior to the developer who can then further examine them. According to … continue reading
DevOps education missing from many computer science degree programs
University student enrollment in computer science programs has been increasing over the years, but many of those programs focus heavily on the foundations of how to write code and not so much on some of what is needed once a developer enters the workforce, such as DevOps practices. “I would say that most college graduates … continue reading
The potential of the DevOps fourth wave
A fourth wave of DevOps is expected to tie together earlier tools into a platform that covers every phase of the DevOps life cycle, according to Sid Sijbrandij, the co-founder and CEO of GitLab. Sibrandij, delivering the keynote address at the GitLab Commit Virtual conference, said the platform will bring together development, operations, and security … continue reading
GitLab 14 aims to do away with DIY DevOps toolchains
GitLab is moving forward to the next evolution of DevOps in the release of GitLab 14. According to the company, many DevOps teams use so-called “DIY DevOps” toolchains that are built with parts not designed to work together, leading to silos, lack of visibility, and maintenance challenges. This latest iteration of the GitLab platform aims … continue reading
SD Times news digest: GCC updates its copyright assignment policy, AWS introduces global clusters to Amazon DocumentDB, and the Swan Lake beta release of Ballerina
The GCC Steering Committee updated its copyright assignment policy by relaxing the requirement to assign copyright to all changes to the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The project will still continue to exist under the GNU General Public License v3.0 and will now accept contributions with or without an FSF copyright assignment. The change is consistent … continue reading
Report: DevOps offers faster releases, but security still a pain point
The COVID-19 pandemic has led teams to focus on embracing DevOps technologies such as Kubernetes, ML/AI and cloud computing, and as a result, 84% of developers say they’re releasing code faster than ever before. That was one of the key findings in GitLab’s fifth annual DevSecOps survey, which this February asked 4,300 DevOps team members … continue reading
SD Times news digest: RubyMine 2021.1 released, ShiftLeft CORE, and GrammaTech CodeSonar update
JetBrians announced the latest release of its Ruby on Rails IDE. RubyMine 2021.1 now supports RBS and uses .rbs files in its code insight for improved code completion capabilities. Users can also now connect RubyMine to the organization in Space where they can view and clone project repositories, review teammates’ code and write Space Automation … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Sauce Labs acquires TestFairy, Git 2.31 released, and Jscrambler now integrates with GitLab
Sauce Labs announced that it acquired Test Fairy, a provider of an enterprise-grade mobile platform designed to help companies streamline their development processes. According to Sauce Labs, the acquisition enhances its real-device cloud capabilities along with its emulator/simulator offering with a developer-centric mobile testing solution to help developers deploy beta apps quickly and get real-user … continue reading
SD Times news digest: .NET Core 2.1 to end support August 21, 2021, Intel joins the DARPA DPRIVE program, and GrammaTech and GitLab team up on SAST
Microsoft announced that .NET Core 2.1 will reach end of support on August 21st, 2021, after which there will be no more updates and security fixes. The .NET Core cross platform and Mobile development workloads won’t be changed and the .NET Core 2.1 component remains as required because these workloads can’t be used without .NET … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Qualcomm’s first AR reference design, GitLab 13.9, and Sider’s new programming language support
Qualcomm has announced it’s first augmented reality reference design. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 AR Smart Viewer Reference Design aims to reduce commercialization time for OEMs to deliver high-quality immersive experiences. According to the company, users get a 30% reduction in overall power consumption in the system, the 2D app framework provides a systems-level feature … continue reading
