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Ruby 3.1.0 was released on December 25, 2021. It merged YJIT, a new experimental in-process JIT compiler from Shopify, alongside a completely rewritten debugger and finer-grained error locations. Here is what changed.

Rails 7.0 was released on December 15, 2021, fulfilling a vision of full-stack development. It made Hotwire and import maps the default for a no-Node front end, and added Active Record encryption and async query loading. Here is what changed.

On December 10, 2021, the Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228, nicknamed Log4Shell, was publicly disclosed. The critical, CVSS 10.0 remote-code-execution flaw in Log4j 2's JNDI lookups affected a huge range of Java software. Here are the confirmed facts, affected versions, and remediation.

Tailwind CSS v3.0 was released on December 9, 2021, bringing the Just-in-Time engine as the stable default, the full color palette out of the box, colored shadows, scroll-snap utilities, and a browser-based Play CDN. Here is what changed.

Django 4.0 was released on December 7, 2021. It added a built-in RedisCache backend, moved form and formset rendering onto the template engine, and adopted the standard library's zoneinfo for timezones. Here is what changed.

.NET 6 was released on November 8, 2021, the first release to natively support Apple Silicon and billed as the fastest .NET yet. An LTS release, it unified the platform and added C# 10, Hot Reload, minimal APIs and dynamic PGO. Here is what changed.

Rust 1.56.0 was released on October 21, 2021, stabilising the Rust 2021 edition with disjoint closure captures, by-value array iteration, an updated prelude, and version 2 of the Cargo feature resolver. Here is what changed.

Swift 5.5 was released on September 20, 2021, a massive release that introduced newly designed language capabilities for concurrency, including async/await, structured concurrency, and actors. Here is what changed.

Java 17 (JDK 17) was released on September 14, 2021, a long-term-support release delivering 14 JEPs. It finalized sealed classes, previewed pattern matching for switch, added an Apple Silicon port, and strongly encapsulated JDK internals. Here is what changed.

Debian 11, codenamed Bullseye, was released as the new stable version on August 14, 2021, with kernel-level exFAT support, driverless printing and scanning, and refreshed desktop environments. Here is what the release means.

Terraform 1.0 was released on June 8, 2021, an unusual release focused on stability rather than new features. It continued directly from the 0.15 series and introduced formal compatibility promises for the whole 1.x line. Here is what changed.

Bootstrap 5.0.0 was released on May 5, 2021, the first major version to drop jQuery in favour of vanilla JavaScript, add CSS custom properties, an offcanvas component, redesigned forms, and a new color-scheme mixin. Here is what changed.