Got in right before closing, not a lot of choices left. 

• Announcing Dart 3.13 #dartlang dart.dev/blog/announcing-dart-… #
• Project Valhalla's First Preview: JEP 401 Redefines == for Java Objects #java #jdk #jep #jvm #valhalla www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/jep… #

The first 5 minutes of #Lanterns is here.

Trouble is coming.

Desperate to pay their son's ransom, a mayoral candidate and his wife resort to extreme measures, revealing dark secrets they never intended to bring to light.

• ChaosTree v1.2.0: Zero-dependency Java search tree library #btree #java #performance #searchtree github.com/Chaos-vy/ChaosTree/… #
• Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes #application #flatpak #linux #sandboxing #security www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-… #

• IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.1 Is Out! #ide #intellij #intellijidea #java #jetbrains #kotlin blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/0… #
• JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Incubator) #java #jdk #json #jvm openjdk.org/jeps/540 #
• Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java #ai #copilot #github #java #microsoft #sdk github.blog/engineering/using-… #
• Apache NetBeans 31 IDE Adds Java Lambda Breakpoints, Improves Code Completion #apache #ide #java #netbeans linuxiac.com/apache-netbeans-3… #