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January 27th, 2025, ISSUE 567

READING

Recap of Advent of Code 2024

Following on from last year’s blog post, let’s see how the Scala community participated in the Advent of Code 2024. We were pleased by the strong engagement on both the Scala Discord and on our solutions website.
Scala Center (@scala_lang)
Running Cask with Virtual Threads

Cask is a Scala HTTP micro-framework. Check this example to learn how to leverage its power combined with Loom.
Zio Schema vs Rust Serde

What do you think? Anything you love about Serde or about Schema that I didn't consider?
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)

EVENTS

Scalar, Mar 27th - 28th 2025, Warsaw, Poland

Join Scalar Conference 2025 and prepare for two exciting days of learning about functional programming with a fantastic community.
Scalar Conference (@scalarconf)
CFP for Lambda Days, June 12th-13th 2025, Kraków, Poland

Call for Talks deadline: Feb 9th, don't hesitate! Our event is one of the biggest functional programming conferences in Europe with 2 days packed with inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and, of course, some fun().
LambdaDays (@LambdaDays)

RELEASES

metals 1.5.0

Support for 2.13.16, fix for Metals stopped compiling bug, error reports improvements, inlay hints for worksheets, and a lot of bug fixes.
metals contributors
scala-cli 1.6.1

A lot of fixes and updates!
scala-cli contributors
IntelliJ IDEA Scala Plugin 2024.3.35

Support for the new context bounds and givens, partial code completion results while indexing, display of Scala collections in the debugger, and fixes for the highlighting of named arguments with lambdas and for other issues.
JetBrains (@jetbrains)
dotty-cps-async 1.0.0

The full version number reflects that the project has been used for a few years without issues. Also: optional commercial support is possible.
Scala 3.6.3

The new feature introduced in this release is -Yprofile-trace compiler option enabling the generation of trace events in a standard JSON format. These can be used by tooling to graphically inspect the amount of time needed to process sources in each compilation phase.
Scala contributo
chimney 1.7.0

This big release bring some long-awaited features: transformations, which take more than 1 case class as input (well, not only case classes 😄 ) and improved Patchers which handle: recursive patching, overriding values.
chimney contributors
scala-nimbus-jose-jwt 2.3.0

Small, simple and opinionated JWT token validator for Scala. Now with Scala 3 support!
Alex Pavlychev
otel4s-doobie

Otel4s tracing integration with Doobie.
Artūras Šlajus (@arturaz_)





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