Andres Almiray

What’s new for Developers in Oracle Database 23.9 For more information on what's new in Oracle Database 23.8, see: What's new for Developers in 23.8 Oracle Database 23.9 has been my favorite RU so far. The features introduced in 23.9 are some of those that we had long had on our list, but simply took a while to get to and to get right. The Non-Positional INSERT INTO…

‼️ #Oracle #Database 23.9 brings some really cool #Developer features to the table:

😎 GROUP BY ALL
🥇 Non-positional INSERT statements - first and only database to support this
🔢 UUIDv4
And more!

Definitely check it out 👇

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No. Groovy has nothing to do with it, despite Gradle using it as a punching bag for years.

It’s about Gradle breaking APIs and introducing contrived idioms to attain faster builds. Speed is the only thing they care about, everything else falls off the table.

Oracle Database 23.9 Free multi-platform images now available on gvenzl/oracle-free Oracle Database 23.9 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free. With this release, 23.7 images have now gone into Unsupported. See the support matrix for more information.

Just updated my gvenzl/oracle-free images to #Oracle #Database 23.9 #Free

Bender’s long lost cousin

I can guarantee you it’s not us.

The number of releases a year is not really a problem. It’s the many times they break compatibility even in patch releases.

It’s like they having a race with Scala to see who can break their releases more often 🤣😅🙃

I kid you not, developer experience is their least of priorities no matter what they say.

Speed first, devexp last. That’s been the driving force for years.

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Thing is, all the goodies I used to have to happen automagically because a plugin can be applied to the Settings object (akin to but not identical to root pom in Maven parlance) are out the window just because an operation may not be “safe” for their build/configuration cache.

Every time Gradle posts a major release plugins get borked.

Every. Single. Time.

Sometimes even on minor, and patch releases. All just to shave a few nano seconds from build times.

I wonder why I even bother with this broken build tool 🙄😓😡

Next release will come out with a bang! Better yet, a @jbang.dev! 🚀🧨

🚀 kordamp-parent 3.5.0 has been released! https://github.com/kordamp/kordamp-parent/releases/tag/v3.5.0

Gradle 9.0.0 had been released! 🥳🎉

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Now let’s review how much things have been borked and find a way to fix them 🤬

“Redundant subprojects list removal when matching direct children”

Not so sure about this one. Is it because the child defines the relationship with the parent? But not every parent is an aggregator and viceversa.

I guess this constraint applies when both parent and child are local to each other.

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Unbearable

What could happen if you combine JBang and JReleaser ?

Bad answers only while we wait for JReleaser next release :)

That’s why JReleaser applies many checks at the local env before pushing to remote. You should try deploy —dry-run a couple of times to be sure configuration is setup properly

YMMV but a single bundle is preferred because of the waiting times from Maven Central and the current mechanism for waiting on a given status.

Correctness over time is better than move fast and break things IMHO.

However, as I said, others prefer fire & forget (and pray) things worked out.

The recommended way is to upload a single bundle instead of multiple bundles github.com/jreleaser/jr...

Autoclose is not a thing in the new Maven Portal API, that was required for the old Nexus2 API

The default setting is to UPLOAD _and_ PUBLISH in one go. Do you want to stage a bundle upload? Then define an explicit stage. It's explained in the guide jreleaser.org/guide/latest...

MavenCentral publish takes too long at server side? · jreleaser jreleaser · Discussion #1919 I have tried to run a publication to maven central, but the task wasn't successful since the publication took too long on the server-side: [INFO] [mavenCentral] - ****.zip [INFO] [mavenCentral] Upl...

Yes, JReleaser is waiting to confirm the operation at the other side of the wire has reached the expected status. Some have asked to skip this check which is currently in evaluation github.com/jreleaser/jr...

Cannot handle aar as packaging · Issue #21 · kordamp/pomchecker Android libraries use <packaging>aar</packaging> which causes an exception when parsing with v1.11.0 org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Some problems were encountered while processi...

First off. This is not a JReleaser problem, nor Pomchecker which is the one that's signaling the problem. It's Gradle's unability to create properly resolvable POM files. See here why github.com/kordamp/pomc...

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The #SQLcl #GitHub action just received an update.

There's no longer a need for the versions.txt file and you can pick up versions as long as they are live on oracle.com.

However, the recommendation remains to just use "latest".

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🚀 jandex-gradle-plugin 2.2.0 has been released! https://github.com/kordamp/jandex-gradle-plugin/releases/tag/v2.2.0

In case you didn't see, #Oracle #database 23.9 has landed

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#SQL #NewFeatures

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