The first release candidate of Erlang/OTP 24 is now available. Highlights include:

• Addition of the BeamAsm JIT-compiler 
• A compatibility adaptor for gen_tcp to use the new socket API 
• Compiler warnings and errors now feature column numbers in addition to line numbers
• Support for FTPES (explicit FTP over TLS)
• Support for the "early data" feature for TLS 1.3 servers and clients

For a full list of changes, click here.

Red Hat is now offering no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux for open-source infrastructure in addition to small production environments.

More:

• Eligible organizations include open-source projects as well organizations that support open-source software production, with open source being defined as all software distributed under a Fedora-approved license. Individual developers are not eligible, however.
• No-cost RHEL subscriptions include build systems, continuous integration (CI) testing, web servers, and more. Free support may also be offered depending on the scope and nature of the organization.
• The news comes a month after Red Hat announced its RHEL Developer subscription would be supported in a production environment of up to 16 systems.

📅   Dev Calendar: This Week's Virtual Events and Hackathons

• FEB. 22-27: JSworld, largest JavaScript conference in Europe available to all virtually.
• FEB. 24-26: ConFoo, a multi-technology conference for developers featuring sessions about Git, techniques to regain control of a legacy base, introduction to building serverless apps, going serverless with Python, and much more.
• FEB. 26-27: Vue.js Amsterdam, Vue.js conference.

Hackathons:

• FEB. 26-28, 2021: AngelHacks 2.0. "We're here to help all beginners get the resources and projects they want under their belt – so we're putting an extra focus on workshops! You'll choose a workshop you want to do, speed-meet a team (or bring your own), and learn ALL the requisite materials to make the project! Afterward, feel free to customize and hack away, and the best winner per workshop gets a fun prize."

Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 has been released. Notable changes include:

• New capabilities that make it possible to connect multiple databases simultaneously while accelerating Hasura support for additional database engines
• Support for REST, in addition to GraphQL, for the user-facing API
• Metadata API tooling
• A new "maintenance mode" that allows for major Hasura version upgrades of itself without causing the GraphQL API and event delivery systems to suffer any downtime

Click here for more information about changes.

⚒️ Trending New Tools / Resources:

• GLab is a new open source GitLab CLI tool that aims to bring GitLab to your command line.
• This is an online code generator that generates the CSS you need to create a "frosted glass" look for page elements.
• Directual is a new no-code platform that aims to combine the scalability, security, and flexibility of traditional coding but with a visual development approach. 

Recent Dev Funding News: 

• Maze (Paris, France), scaled user tests provider for updates and copy: $15M A led by Emergence Capital.
• Creatio (Boston, Mass.), low-code platform for process management and CRM: $68M led by Volition Capital, participation from Horizon Capital.
• Prophecy.io (Palo Alto, Calif.), SaaS-based low code data engineering platform: $6M from SignalFire, Ross Mason, et al.

This information first appeared in Inside Venture Capital.

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• This company is reinventing home and renters insurance. Get a quote to see how much you could save. *
• GitHub's MLH Fellowship will include American Express and Adobe this summer. The program invites students to work remotely with experienced engineers, and was created to replace internships lost due to the pandemic.  
• Chartio announced it has joined Atlassian and will thus shut down on March 1, 2022. 
• JRuby 9.2.15.0 is now available and features several bug fixes. Download it here.
• What are the costs of inefficiencies in your product release cycle? Read how top companies save over $1M each year. *