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The upcoming Vert.x Http Proxy updates, introduced through Google Summer of Code 2024, will simplify usage and reduce boilerplate code by adding features like interceptors for modifying HTTP requests and responses.

Vert.x 5 is coming with many great new features and enhancements. In this article, you’ll learn about the Vert.x Micrometer Metrics performance improvements.

Apache Pinot is a realtime distributed datastore for analytics workloads. To make it easier for Eclipse Vert.x users to use Apache Pinot in their applications, we introduce the Reactiverse Vert.x Client for Pinot.

Vert.x 4.4 introduces several improvements to the GraphQL-Java integration, including an upgraded GraphiQL IDE with a slick UI and subscriptions support, simplified data fetcher definitions using instrumentation, and support for Apollo’s Automatic Persisted Queries (APQ).

JEP 425: Virtual threads aka Loom is coming to the Java Platform as a preview in Java 19. The Vert.x team is launching an incubator project to experiment with virtual threads.

A recent CVE-2021-44228 has been disclosed that affects the Log4j 2 library. The Vert.x project can optionally use Log4j but does not ship it and therefore is not affected by this CVE.

You will learn how to achieve dynamic database configuration of the Vert.x SQL Client pool

Eclipse Vert.x like most frameworks provides an anti-CSRF defense. However, no framework can prevent all attack vectors that exist in the web. Therefore, developers need to be aware of some dangers and common attack vectors concerning CSRF defenses.

We provide a clear and well-documented migration path from Vert.x 3.9 to Vert.x 4. Existing users will feel at home with the new version.