GitHub Actions' ubuntu-latest is changing to 26.04—Java 8, tsc, and webpack are disappearing, and CMake pinning is being removed

Starting October 19, 2026, GitHub Actions' ubuntu-latest will switch from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04. The transition is scheduled to be completed by November 19.The official announcement issue ...
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Java 8 for Financial Services

It’s purely fictitious data, made up in just a few minutes in Excel but we’re going to use this for the examples. To import this into Java we have a few choices; we could hand code the Trade class and ...
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Java 8 still dominates, but Java 17 wave is coming – survey

More than one-third of professional Java developers surveyed by Perforce JRebel were using the eight-year-old version of Java for their main application. Despite arriving nearly eight years ago, Java ...
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Get started with lambda expressions in Java

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...
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Oracle、「Java SE 8 Update 31」を公開。「JRE 7」から「JRE 8」への自動更新を実施

米Oracle Corporationは20日（現地時間）、「Java Platform, Standard Edition（Java SE）」の最新版「Java SE 8 Update 31」を公開した。現在、公式サイトから無償でダウンロード可能。 今回のアップデートは ...
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Spring Framework 4 and Java 8

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