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As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry.
Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
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Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
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The top software development news of the year
This article contains 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year on SD Times.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry.
Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
sdtimes.com/softwaredev/...
Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
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Research from design company OCTO shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.
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Why AI isn't replacing UX designers – it's making them indispensable
Our research shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Research from design company OCTO shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.
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Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, but AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here’s a look at the top trending stories on SD Times for 2025.
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Our top trending opinion and analysis articles from the past year
AI wasn't the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here's a look at the top trending stories on sdtimes.com for 2025.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, but AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here’s a look at the top trending stories on SD Times for 2025.
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Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns.
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Patronus AI announces Generative Simulators to provide adaptive training environments to agents
Generative Simulators are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios and update the rules of the world over time.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns.
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Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed.
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Why flaky tests are increasing, and what you can do about it
Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed.
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As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in AI in 2026.
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AI predictions for 2026
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in AI in 2026.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in AI in 2026.
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Due to time-to-market pressure and resource constraints, mobile app developers are shipping code that’s under-tested and under-protected.
Here are three inconvenient (but essential) truths to help you effectively secure your mobile apps in the coming year.
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Here are three inconvenient (but essential) truths to help you effectively secure your mobile apps in the coming year.
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Three things they’re not telling you about mobile app security
Due to time-to-market pressure and resource constraints, mobile app developers are shipping code that’s under-tested and under-protected.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Due to time-to-market pressure and resource constraints, mobile app developers are shipping code that’s under-tested and under-protected.
Here are three inconvenient (but essential) truths to help you effectively secure your mobile apps in the coming year.
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Here are three inconvenient (but essential) truths to help you effectively secure your mobile apps in the coming year.
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Catch up on the latest AI news of the week in our final weekly AI update article of the year!
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This week in AI updates: Anthropic makes Skills an open standard, GPT-5.2-Codex released, and more (December 19, 2025)
Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was introduced in October, and now Anthropic is making it an open standard.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Catch up on the latest AI news of the week in our final weekly AI update article of the year!
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Rather than treating AI as a third-party plugin, Bitrix24 embeds intelligence directly into the project lifecycle—from initial scoping to automated reporting—within a single, unified workspace.
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Beyond code: How Bitrix24’s AI powers end-to-end project management
Rather than treating AI as a third-party plugin, Bitrix24 embeds intelligence directly into the project lifecycle within a single workspace.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Rather than treating AI as a third-party plugin, Bitrix24 embeds intelligence directly into the project lifecycle—from initial scoping to automated reporting—within a single, unified workspace.
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Google has announced the release of Gemini 3 Flash, its latest frontier model designed for speed at a lower token cost.
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Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, enabling faster, more cost effective reasoning
Google has announced the release of Gemini 3 Flash, its latest frontier model designed for speed at a lower token cost.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Google has announced the release of Gemini 3 Flash, its latest frontier model designed for speed at a lower token cost.
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The dominant story of 2025 – one that infused new challenges and opportunities for software development, delivery, security, testing, observability and more – was the rapid, widespread adoption of artificial intelligence.
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2025 Year in Review: AI continued to influence all areas of software development
Organizations have been kicking the tire on AI for the past several years, but 2025 saw an explosion of AI-powered offerings all along the software development life cycle.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The dominant story of 2025 – one that infused new challenges and opportunities for software development, delivery, security, testing, observability and more – was the rapid, widespread adoption of artificial intelligence.
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Enterprises are waking up to a hard truth. AI won’t transform their business with a flashy demo. It takes infrastructure, governance — and engineering.
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AI needs less magic and more engineering
We’re finally trading hype for hard engineering — and that’s exactly what AI needs to evolve and scale.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Enterprises are waking up to a hard truth. AI won’t transform their business with a flashy demo. It takes infrastructure, governance — and engineering.
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Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are production-ready images maintained by Docker to reduce vulnerabilities in container images.
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Docker open sources its Docker Hardened Images catalog
Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are production-ready images maintained by Docker to reduce vulnerabilities in container images.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are production-ready images maintained by Docker to reduce vulnerabilities in container images.
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Our last podcast of 2025 is here! Listen in here to our conversation with OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin about the areas of software development that still require a human touch.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Our last podcast of 2025 is here! Listen in here to our conversation with OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin about the areas of software development that still require a human touch.
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StackHawk today announced it is adding BLT (Business Logic Testing) to its AppSec menu. This new testing capability addresses business logic flaws such as broken object level authorization.
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StackHawk adds Business Logic Testing (BLT) to its AppSec platform menu
The new functionality was built for AI, in that it can identify BOLA and broken function level authorization security concerns that SAST and DAST tools cannot.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
StackHawk today announced it is adding BLT (Business Logic Testing) to its AppSec menu. This new testing capability addresses business logic flaws such as broken object level authorization.
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Zencoder is introducing its Zenflow desktop app in an attempt to help development teams transition from vibe coding to AI-First Engineering. Its early testing of Zenflow found that it can improve code correctness by an average of 20%.
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Zencoder introduces AI Orchestration layer to cut down on issues in AI-generated code
Zenflow introduces an AI Orchestration layer to turn “chaotic model interactions into repeatable, verifiable engineering workflows.”
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December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Zencoder is introducing its Zenflow desktop app in an attempt to help development teams transition from vibe coding to AI-First Engineering. Its early testing of Zenflow found that it can improve code correctness by an average of 20%.
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Google has announced a new project that aims to leverage generative AI to build contextually relevant UIs.
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Google launches A2UI project to enable agents to build contextually relevant UIs
A2UI is a new project from Google that allows AI agents to create UIs from the client application's catalog of components.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Google has announced a new project that aims to leverage generative AI to build contextually relevant UIs.
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As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in software development in 2026.
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Software development predictions for 2026
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in software development in 2026.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in software development in 2026.
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As AI coding assistants churn out ever greater amounts of code, the first and most painful bottleneck that software teams face is code review. Augment Code announced a Code Review Agent to relieve that pressure and improve flow in the SDLC.
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Why AI-driven development still demands human oversight
As AI coding assistants churn out ever greater amounts of code, the first – and arguably most painful – bottleneck that software teams face is code review.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As AI coding assistants churn out ever greater amounts of code, the first and most painful bottleneck that software teams face is code review. Augment Code announced a Code Review Agent to relieve that pressure and improve flow in the SDLC.
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Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration.
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Report: To make developer teams happy, focus on documentation
Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration.
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Infragistics has announced that it is open sourcing over 50 of its Ignite UI components, spanning Angular, React, Blazor, and Web Components.
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Infragistics open sources 50+ Ignite UI components
The UI company Infragistics has announced that it is open sourcing over 50 of its Ignite UI components, spanning Angular, React, Blazor, and Web Components.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Infragistics has announced that it is open sourcing over 50 of its Ignite UI components, spanning Angular, React, Blazor, and Web Components.
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The FinOps Foundation has announced the latest version of the FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), aiming to solve problems related to splitting shared resource costs, tracking contract commitments accurately, and verifying data freshness.
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FinOps Foundation releases FOCUS 1.3 to address issues related to splitting shared resource costs
FOCUS 1.3 adds new allocation-specific columns to enable teams to expose how they are splitting costs of shared resources.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The FinOps Foundation has announced the latest version of the FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), aiming to solve problems related to splitting shared resource costs, tracking contract commitments accurately, and verifying data freshness.
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The Java vendor Azul has announced that it is acquiring Payara, a company that provides solutions for Jakarta EE-based applications.
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Azul acquires enterprise Java platform Payara
The Java vendor Azul has announced that it is acquiring Payara, a company that provides solutions for Jakarta EE-based applications.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Java vendor Azul has announced that it is acquiring Payara, a company that provides solutions for Jakarta EE-based applications.
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Progress announced the latest releases of its Telerik and Kendo UI products, which both include an Agentic UI Generator that can create multi-component, fully styled, enterprise-grade page layouts.
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Progress adds Agentic UI Generator to latest versions of Telerik and Kendo UI
The Agentic UI Generator in Progress Telerik and Kendo can create multi-component, fully styled, enterprise-grade page layouts.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Progress announced the latest releases of its Telerik and Kendo UI products, which both include an Agentic UI Generator that can create multi-component, fully styled, enterprise-grade page layouts.
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