Not too much news, but expected and reassuring for those of us who live at least partially in JVM-land. I have been programming since the 1960s and the JVM has been the most important programming technology that I have experienced.

Although JRuby, Scala, Clojure, etc. are niche development markets right now, I expect to see a huge uptake in alternative JVM languages used by highly skilled developers. I am not dissing Java, just saying :-)