When I recently switched to Manjaro, I was happy that I could use the native MuseScore app instead of the AppImage, and that performance issues were gone. But since last week, I could not play back any MuseScore file anymore. Even worse: As long as MuseScore was started, ALL the playback devices only produced a crackling and distorted sound with an echo of about 1.5 to two seconds.
For quite a while I was using a NUC and an IcyBox USB 2 disk enclosing. But the enclosing was not able to use acoustic management. As the hardware is in the main hallway of my appartment and the bedroom is nextdoor, I was looking for a less noisy solution, which is upgradable.
A while ago, Sandra and I were working on the p2-maven-plugin, which helps you create Eclipse RCP projects via maven means. One of the tasks we faces was updating the Tycho dependency which is used to actually package and bundle the project.
As an Apache Shiro PMC member, I have occasionally contact to cryptographic functions. For example, Shiro 1.x allows hashed passwords in your shiro.ini configuration.
If you use Open Liberty Java Application Server, you should be careful when maintaining a cipher list. See what happens if you are not careful.
The Release of Apache Shiro 1.7.1 is out. Why I blog about this? I have been a commiter for the Apache Shiro project for a while now and recently became PMC member. 😊
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JLink Plugin, version 3.1.0.
Whenever you pull in SnakeYAML (either directly or via Jackson), you will break your modulear builds. The reason: SnakeYAML is a named automatic module. But then, automatic modules cannot be used in jlink images.
If you want to integration-test your Maven project, you might already use GitHub Actions.
I recently created a new OpenPGP key for my Apache (ASF) account. Of course I wanted to sign it with my existing GnuPG key I have since 2007. To my surprise, it failed with these error messages:
