#v14-software

#v14-software

The app's search bar can be accessed with the Alt + Space shortcut, allowing users to conduct web searches enhanced by AI for follow-up questions.

To turn Gemini off, you will need to disable two separate sets of options. The first set covers a set of features, including smart compose, that are shared across Gmail, Chat and Meet.

New overloads on TarFile.CreateFromDirectory accept a TarEntryFormat parameter, giving direct control over the archive format. Previously, CreateFromDirectory produced Pax archives. The new overloads support all four tar formats—Pax, Ustar, GNU, and V7—for compatibility with specific tools and environments.

We're not building software for customers. 14.ai is an AI-native customer service agency. We combine software and services in one package. For customers, operating software is hard, especially for customer service. We take over their entire operation, and we use our own purpose-built stack for customer service.

But the nature of web design has changed since CSS was first built. Most frameworks, whether it be Angular, React, or Astro, have become component-based. But even those components were designed to separate CSS and HTML. For instance, in Angular, a component consists of three files: a TypeScript file, an HTML file, and a CSS file. But those components are becoming more and more granular.

Your coding apprentice can build, at your direction, pretty much anything now. The task becomes more like conducting an orchestra than playing in it. Not all members of the orchestra want to conduct, but given that is where things are headed, I think we all need to consider it at least.

JDK 26, the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its second release candidate as declared by Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle. The main-line source repository, forked to the JDK stabilization repository in early-December 2025 (Rampdown Phase One), defines the feature set for JDK 26. Critical bugs, such as regressions or serious functionality issues, may be addressed, but must be approved via the Fix-Request process. As per the release schedule, JDK 26 will be formally released on March 17, 2026.

With C# 14, now you can run a C# file directly from the command line without needing a project or solution file. Until C# 14, we've had to follow a multi-step process to run a minimal .cs file. Not only was this a multi-step process, but it incurred significant additional overhead because you had to create a solution file and a project file to run your application.

The headline runtime feature in this preview is Runtime Async, described as a major change to how asynchronous methods work in .NET. According to the release notes, since C# 5 introduced async/await, the compiler has been solely responsible for rewriting async methods into state machine structs that track progress across suspension points. With Runtime Async, the runtime itself now understands async methods as a first-class concept and takes over responsibility for suspending and resuming methods.