Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.
Sun has released VirtualBox 3.0. VirtualBox is a x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use and is available under the GPL license.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual)
Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
An update has been released for initial preview release of MySQL 5.4. The release contains scalability improvements and additional DTrace probes for diagnostic troubleshooting on Solaris.
This release does not differ from 5.4.0 except that binary distributions are available for all MySQL-supported platforms, including Windows binaries with scalability improvements enabled. It`s expected that scalability improvements will also benefit users of 64-bit Mac OS X and FreeBSD as well as 64-bit Linux/Solaris/SPARC, and potentially also users of 32-bit versions of these platforms.
The PHP development team has announced the release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
This release also drops several extensions and unifies the usage of internal APIs. Users should be aware of the following known backwards compatibility breaks:
Parameter parsing API unification will cause some functions to behave more or less strict when it comes to type juggling
Sun released NetBeans 6.7 NetBeans IDE 6.7 offers enhancements for Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Groovy and C/C++, and more. Additional highlights include a self-diagnostic Profiler, and support for SVG Rich Components, remote debugging in Ruby, and the latest version of GlassFish. The release also provides plug-in support for Zembly, a single registry and repository for popular Web APIs.
NetBeans IDE 6.7 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. There are several community-contributed localization efforts underway to support additional languages.
Feature highlights
Connected Developer Tools
Create Kenai-hosted open source projects directly within the IDE
Manage your Kenai project and collaborate with like-minded developers
File issue tracking reports using both Jira and Bugzilla
Maven
Library dependency graph viewer
Improved code completion for Maven plugin parameters
Support for Java EE, Web Services creation and consumption
POM Editor and Navigator enhancements
PHP
PHPUnit support
Code coverage and Selenium support
SQL code completion in the PHP editor
GlassFish
Glassfish v3 Prelude instance with pre-configured Derby (Java DB) integration
Code completion support for Glassfish v3 Prelude
Added Hierarchy to the Tree View in the Services Explorer
Groovy and Grails
Out-of-the-box support for Grails 1.1
Code completion
Disable browser opening on run and configure platforms to use with Grails projects
Invoke Grails command or custom script from context menu item
Ruby and Rails
Remote debugging
Improvements to Ruby constants support
Run and debug actions for test cases and suites included in context menu
Support for Shoulda tests
C/C++
DLight profiling tools for C++ projects (with minimal overhead!)
Integrated support of popular Qt library and tools
More refactorings and code generation in the C/C++ editor
Macro expansion view to analyze preprocessor output
Profiler
Export profiling data into CSV, HTML and XML file formats
HeapWalker supports OQL queries to analyze the contents of the heapdump
Debugger
Debugger options to customize debugging process
Easy viewing and setup of sources before start of debugging session
Java
Hudson services integration for Ant and Maven projects
Generated source roots now displayed in the Projects tab
Struts library migrated to version 1.3.8
Java ME / Mobility
Bundled with the Java Platform Micro Edition Software Development Kit 3.0
Support for the Java Card Platform 3.0
Full support for SVG Rich Components in the Visual Mobile Designer
Improvements to the SVG Composer
NetBeans Platform
Enhancements to Output window, Update Center catalog, and search performance
Improved toolbar behavior and declarative MIME type resolvers
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