This week in Tech news | 26th November

Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3

Major version upgrades for Spring Framework and spring boot

Major features and changes include:

  1. Java 17 support (Latest LTS verdion)

Java 17 introduced these following language features

  • Records
  • String blocks
  • Switch expression
  • Pattern Matching
  • Sealed classes

  • Native executables

Running Java apps native executables without the need to install Java environment. Spring Native uses GraalVM image compiler to achieve this.

  1. Observability

Improved Observability by incorporating Micrometer's observability API as well as tracing through privders such as OpenTracing or OpenTelemetey

Details here

Stable Diffusion v2

Stable diffusion V1 was a breakthrough in generating AI images(along with Dall-E). V2 released last week with considerable improvements.

  1. depth2img

Provide depth to AI generated images

  1. Higher resolution images

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