Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 kernel, at the end of the usual nine-week development cycle, on October 18. This cycle, abundantly fueled by LLM-assisted contributions, broke just about every record imaginable. As usual, we have compiled some statistics showing how this…

Lobsters

Oct 19

Removing a Type Assertion with Object.assign

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Lobsters

Oct 19

Wine ported to OpenBSD

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InfoQ

Oct 19

Pinterest Uses Event Time Watermarks to Finalize Petabyte Scale Data Partitions

Pinterest has introduced event time-based partition finalization for its database ingestion framework. The mechanism uses Apache Flink to track event time and Apache Iceberg metadata to publish a non-regressing watermark, helping downstream jobs determine when continuously…

InfoQ

Oct 19

JEP 543 Finalizes Structured Concurrency in JDK 28, Ending Seven Preview Rounds

JDK 28 finalizes structured concurrency through JEP 543, with no API changes from JDK 27. Teams on JDK 27 only need to drop --enable-preview and recompile. Code written for JDK 25 or 26 must adapt to the R_X exception type parameter, ExecutionException wrapping, and the…