#java-17

#java-17

Voices, an open-source text-to-speech project, was designed for applications running on Java 17 or newer. The library requires no external APIs or manually installed software. Audio files can be generated for various languages based on dictionaries or OpenVoice. Henry Coles, creator of Voices and Pitest and head of mutation testing at Arcmutate, introduced Voices on Bluesky in September 2025 and the latest version, released in late October 2025, is 0.0.8.

The JUnit team has released JUnit 6.0.0 (GA on September 30, 2025), unifying version numbers across Platform, Jupiter, and Vintage and raising the minimum to Java 17 (and Kotlin 2.2 for Kotlin test code). The update adds native support for Kotlin tests, a new API with fail-fast execution in the ConsoleLauncher, built-in Java Flight Recorder (JFR) listeners, adoption of JSpecify nullability across modules, and a switch to FastCSV for CSV-driven parameterized tests.