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Pants 2.14: Less boilerplate, more Rust, better support for Go monorepos, interactive debugging support, and more!

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Pants 2.14: Less boilerplate, more Rust, better support for Go monorepos, interactive debugging support, and more!

Highlights include: less boilerplate via hierarchical defaults for target field values, better Golang monorepo support, with multiple `go.mod`s, do more of your workflows in Pants with the experimental `deploy` goal (with initial support for Helm), and much more…

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Pants 2.12: Improved performance for common cases, IDE support for Java and Scala

We're pleased to announce Pants 2.12.0 [https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.12/docs], the latest release of Pants: the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.12.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips [https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/upgrade-tips] for more information.

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Pants 2.9: Alpha support for Java and Scala, improvements for Docker and Go, and more

We're pleased to announce [Pants 2.9.0](https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.9/docs), the latest release of Pants: the scalable and ergonomic build system!

Fast Incremental Builds with Speculation and Cancellation

Fast Incremental Builds with Speculation and Cancellation

Fast incremental re-builds are critical in large codebases and monorepos. Thanks to deep support for cancellation and a side-effect free execution model, Pants is able to further reduce re-build latency by speculatively re-executing work.

Dependency inference: Precise caching and concurrency, without the boilerplate

Dependency inference: Precise caching and concurrency, without the boilerplate

Scalable build tools have historically meant a significant boilerplate burden. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Pants v2 supports all of the caching, concurrency, and introspection you need to scale your repository, with significantly less boilerplate, thanks to… Dependency inference!