Kotlin Weekly issue #512 covers highlights from KotlinConf'26 including advances in language design, tooling, AI-driven workflows, and multiplatform development. JetBrains announced a new 18-month security support policy for the Kotlin standard library, an official Kotlin extension for VS Code in Alpha, and a productivity study showing Kotlin developers are 15–20% more productive than Java users. Google AI Studio now supports building native Kotlin Android apps in the browser. Library releases include Touch Robot for interactive Compose UI screenshot tests, epub4kmp for EPUB manipulation, kotlin-csv 2.0.0, Material 3 Compose Unstyled, PdfKmp for PDF generation, a KMP migration skill agent, and Some for test instance generation.
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