One of the bigger stories in the wider tech industry this week was a "brandjacking" attack against some open-source package repositories, notably npm.
The team at Sonatype (responsible for Maven Central) published a detailed response and some perspectives as to what it means for the Java ecosystem.
Microsoft announced the release of v3 of their Graph SDK in Java.
The Graph API exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on Microsoft cloud services, including Microsoft 365 services and their Enterprise Mobility and Security services.It was a busy week for OpenJDK, with Java 16 publishing a second release candidate (RC2).
This was due to a fix that had been previously integrated at the tail end of an earlier rampdown phase but was not being included in the first Release Candidate build.