In this episode, we discuss when you should use background jobs: https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/99-when-should-you-use-background-jobs/

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.3.11.0

• Homepage: https://www.jruby.org/
• Download: https://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 9.3.x is compatible with Ruby 2.6.x and stays in sync with C Ruby. As always there is a mix of miscellaneous fixes so be sure to read the issue list below.

Thank you to our contributors this release, you help keep JRuby moving forward! @ahorek, @chadlwilson, @justinstoller, @k77ch7, @kares, @snoglobe

Ruby Compatibility

• Multiple fixes for keyword arguments edge cases. #7676, #7755, #7804, #7816

Standard Library

• strscan is still built-in (not a gem) but has been updated to the 3.0.6 version. #7634, #7884, #7889
  • Along with this change, our Regexp engine joni is updated to 2.2.1 for Range optimizations.
• Default gem updates:
  • jruby-openssl0.14.2 #7877

JVM Integration

• Virtual thread use in Fiber can now be disabled using the jruby.fiber.vthread=false property (or JRuby flag -Xfiber.vthread=false). #7907

Build and Distribution

• The JRuby/Maven stack of plugins used to integrate Ruby and Maven artifacts have been updated to the latest versions, now using JRuby 9.4.3.0 for builds and avoiding the use of deprecated rubygems.org APIs. #7880

33 Github Issues resolved for 9.3.11.0

• #7216 – Something changed from 9.2.x to 9.3.x that causes a SecurityException with access denied when using jruby as osgi-bundle
• #7353 – SSH connection stucked with NET::SSH_7.0.1 and OpenSSH_8.0 with FIPS enabled
• #7394 – require_relative confused by chdir
• #7483 – Regression in Socket#close – EBADF after unsuccessful connection
• #7633 – Do not return early from ThreadService#terminate
• #7634 – Update joni and strscan
• #7635 – Cleanup IO state for true connect failures
• #7648 – Array#fill not compliant with MRI
• #7651 – Fix Array#fill for edge case
• #7677 – SCRIPT_LINES__ is set to nil if you require ripper.
• #7730 – Running specific regex with Regexp::IGNORECASE flag on text starting with specific pipe character results in java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
• #7742 – fix flipBuffer overloads
• #7749 – When converting from binary to decimal with to_i(2), the result will be 0 if it contains multiple underscores.
• #7754 – [deps] update jruby-openssl to 0.14.1
• #7762 – [fix] avoid walking constructor instructions on every call
• #7769 – error: invalid multibyte character occurs in JRuby 9.4.2.0
• #7782 – Fix defined?(super) on BasicObject from causing NullPointerException
• #7784 – [build] make generated .class files deterministic
• #7794 – [deps] update joda-time to latest 2.12.5
• #7805 – High lock contention in Socket.select in JRuby 9.3
• #7806 – Reduce contention in heavy IO operations
• #7877 – [deps] update jruby-openssl to 0.14.2
• #7880 – Migrate to new mavengem (9.3 version)
• #7889 – Update joni and strscan for recent fixes
• #7906 – It seems that tomcat results in nullpointer exception when clearing tread locals
• #7907 – Improvements for vthread fibers
• #7912 – Guard for null in StringWrapper
• #7916 – ConcurrentModificationException during RubyModule.defineAnnotatedMethods / Ruby.addBoundMethod
• #7917 – Make bound method management threadsafe
• #7920 – Restore default protection domain for OneShotCL
• #7932 – Store absolute path of main at load time
• #7933 – Improve line numbers for generated dynscopes
• #7934 – Fix String#to_i with leading zero and underscores

Next up in the series of p2k23 hackathon reports is this from Landry Breuil (landry@), who writes,

It’s been a while since the last
p2k19 in bucarest… and this time in a
new place, city, country, lovely ireland with a lovely weather at this
time of the year.

As usual, i wanted to play with things that were left on the side
for a
while (upgrading
mail/stalwart
stack to the new all-bundled-in-one
layout to play with
JMAP… or testing matthieu@‘s work on wayland) –
but i was of course mostly distracted from those interesting topics by
…firefox, you guess it. Dammit, not again !

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With the release of Windows 10 21H2, Windows offers inbox support for Mopria compliant printer devices over network and USB interfaces via the Microsoft IPP Class Driver. This removes the need for print device manufacturers to provide their own installers, drivers, utilities, and so on.  Device experience customization is now available via the Print Support Apps that are distributed and automatically installed via the Windows Store. This framework improves reliability and performance by moving customization from the Win32 framework to the UWP software development framework. Finally, print device manufacturers no longer have to rebuild their software since this solution is supported across all Windows versions and editions. With these advancements in the Windows print platform, we are announcing the end of servicing of the legacy v3 and v4 Windows printer drivers. As this is an impactful change, end of servicing will be staged over multiple years. Printer drivers used to be an absolute hell on Windows. Whereas on Linux you just plug the printer in and Linux will find and use the printer without much issue, on Windows, you had to trawl vendor websites using obscure device names and minor version variations just to get the right driver installed – usually accompanied by a whole boatload or crapware. Things got better as Windows eventually started downloading printer drivers and accompanying OEM management software by itself, and it seems this is the next step in the process by moving the functionality from these often crappy printer management applications into Print Support Apps.