Java News from Friday, September 11, 2009

Martin Odersky has released Scala 2.7.6, a general purpose programming language mixes object-oriented and functional features. It is hosted on top of the Java virtual machine. According to Antonio Cunei, 2.7.6 fixes "one rare issue that could result in a 'malformed Scala signature' message. No other fixes or changes are included; if you have never encountered the message above, you will not notice any difference by upgrading. "