First comes hate(rs), then comes committers. Then comes a tag, in the github app reporting its woes, committing new code doing the hula hula dance! Ok, so one of the biggest stories is that blooming collaboration (romance?) that's happening between Spring and Graal. Yep, the most popular framework is teaming up with the hottest VM in town (this sounds like a movie script already!). We also dive into some unexpected releasers like Jython 2.7.2, new leadership for the ASF (And its board of directors), and a game of "where in the world is Istio (not Carmen Sandiego) going?" played by Google. In all, with drinks in hand, on remote, a fun episode to listen to. We thank DataDogHQ for sponsoring this podcast episode DO follow us on twitter @offheap JFrog's blog on Carl Quinn Java Posse Episode, where JavaPubHouse (and later OffHeap) was (1:15:00 mark) SpringOne, virtual and free Lightbend Layoffs? Spring-graal Native Confluent (Apache Kafka) Seed Round Jakarta EE Developer Survey ASF Board of Directors Java 15 Release Date Quarkus 1.3.2 Final Jython 2.7.2 Released! Istio goin to a Foundation