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A curated list of Scala related news from the community.
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Improving Scala's docs and website
Scala Center outlines a Sovereign Tech Fund-backed project to improve Scaladoc and website docs, covering scope, goals, work packages, and community-sourced task collection for Scala 3 (and some
Scala Codebase Security Audit Complete
Scala Center shares first results of a security audit (with OSTIF/Quarkslab) of the Scala 3 compiler and stdlib: 5 medium, 1 low, 2 informational issues found, all fixed in 3.3 LTS and 3.8 branches.
The Scala Library Author's Dilemma
Explains how Sage supports multiple Scala effect systems (ZIO, Cats Effect, Kyo, Ox, Pekko) from one codebase, detailing prior approaches tried and remaining tradeoffs.
Typelevel Traverses Europe
Typelevel announces four free in-person European meetups in October: Berlin (14th), Copenhagen (22nd), London (24th), and Málaga (28th), featuring talks, workshops, and unconferences; registration
Video: Scala and C - tight as brothers (Scalar 2026)
Recording of Anton Sviridov's Scalar 2026 talk on Scala/C interop, covering tools, examples, caveats, and pitfalls of combining the two languages.
hashing bakeoff
Part of eed3si9n's sbt 2.x development series; discusses hashing's role in caching and incremental compilation, treating inputs like files/parameters as numbers for lookup.
reducing scaladoc file size with sbt-salad-days
Explains sbt-salad-days, a tool by Eugene Yokota to shrink Scaladoc output size, prompted by Maven Central's new 80MB monthly publishing size limits for open source projects.
sbt 2 is now available!
Announces sbt 2's release after five years of development: Scala 3.8.4 build definitions, JDK 17 minimum, sbtn client, incremental/cachable tasks, project matrix, and migration/upgrade guidance plus
sbt 2.0.0
sbt 2.0.0 is out: the first release of the new major series, built on Scala 3 constructs with a Bazel-compatible cache, and following semantic versioning so plugins keep working across 2.x.