A few years ago, we took over maintenance and guidance for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit project. Please refer to this blog post for more information on the project and why we stepped in to assist.
As part of our ongoing commitment to the project, we’ve released an update (ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit v19.1.0) to address the following issues.
Improvements
- Visual Studio 2019 Support
- Security hardening: HTML-encode file names in AjaxFileUpload (#483)
 

In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how 

The first minor release of Bootstrap 5 is here! v5.1.0 has arrived and is packed with exciting new features and improvements. There’s experimental support for CSS Grid, offcanvas in the navbar, a new placeholders component, horizontal collapse support, new helpers, new CSS variables in our utilities, refactored JavaScript, and more. 

New In-Memory OLTP improvements in CTP3.1 include:

• Unique indexes in memory-optimized tables, to complement the support for unique constraints that was released in CTP3
• LOB data types varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) in memory-optimized tables and natively compiled modules
• Indexes with NULLable key columns in memory-optimized tables

Syntax inputdate AT TIME ZONE timezone.

• Inputdate: An expression that can be resolved to a smalldatetime, datetime, datetime2, or datetimeoffset value.
• Timezone: Name of the destination time zone in standard format as enumerated by Windows. Available time zones can be found by querying sys.time_zone_info.
  

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) updates allow upgrading your existing models to 1200 compatibility level and a JSON editor for SSDT;

Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new look designed to get out of the way and let you do what you do best: surf a ton of pages, open a zillion tabs, all guilt free because Firefox Quantum uses less memory than the competition 

Electron 11.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 87, V8 8.7, and Node.js 12.18.3. We've added support for Apple silicon, and general improvements. Read below for more details! 

We’re delighted to announce the availability of RTVS 0.5. Key updates in this release include:

Some major highlights of TypeScript 4.4 are:

Control Flow Analysis of Aliased Conditions and Discriminants
Symbol and Template String Pattern Index Signatures
Defaulting to the unknown Type in Catch Variables (--useUnknownInCatchVariables)
Exact Optional Property Types (--exactOptionalPropertyTypes)
Class static Blocks
tsc --help Updates and Improvements
Performance Improvements
Spelling Suggestions for JavaScript
Inlay Hints
Breaking Changes
 

A quick two months after 2.6, Git 2.7 has been released with a plethora of features, fixes and performance improvements. Here's some of the new stuff we found interesting on the Bitbucket team. 

Damian Edwards talks about types of performance, startup time considerations, throughput, latency / response time, scale and memory overhead. He then digs into the benchmarking work the team has been doing, showing some live demos running in the team's performance lab.