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AWS Transform Custom Tackles Technical Debt
AWS Transform Custom revolutionizes code modernization with AI-driven, out-of-the-box transformations for Java, Node.js, and Python. This enterprise-focused tool accelerates application upgrades by up to 5x while learning from organizational nuances to deliver high-quality, repeatable transformations.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Tools 5, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Hibernate ORM, Spock Framework
This week's Java roundup for December 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Spring Tools 5.0; milestone releases of Spring AI and Spring Shell; the December 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Hibernate ORM and Spock Framework; and maintenance releases of Spring Framework, Micronaut, Apache TomEE and Apache Tomcat.
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Fray Detects Concurrency Issues in JVM Languages
Carnegie Mellon University has introduced Fray, a concurrency testing tool for JVM programs to catch bugs and replay them. Written in Kotlin and based on this research paper, Fray can’t find all concurrency issues, but uses recent research in order to maximize the chances of detecting them.
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BellSoft Unveils Hardened Java Images
BellSoft has launched Hardened Images for Java containers, claiming 95% fewer CVEs and 30% resource savings. Built on Alpaquita Linux, the 3-in-1 solution combines runtime optimisation, OS hardening, and CVE remediation. It offers a secure, flexible alternative to Chainguard and Distroless, available now in three tiers.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 26 in Rampdown, JDK 27 Expert Group, GlassFish, TornadoVM, Spring gRPC
This week's Java roundup for December 1st, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 26 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 27 Expert Group; GA releases of TornadoVM 2.0 and Spring gRPC 1.0; a point release of GlassFish 7.1; the December 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the first beta release of JHipster 9.0 and the second release candidate of Hibernate Search 8.2.
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JEP 526 Simplifies Deferred Initialization ahead of JDK 26
JEP 526 introduces Lazy Constants for JDK 26, enhancing developer ergonomics and performance. This feature replaces the earlier Stable Values, simplifying initialization while ensuring thread safety and immutability. With utilities for lazy lists and maps, it promotes efficient resource management, reducing startup costs. Feedback is welcomed to refine this API ahead of a potential future release.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, JobRunr, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK
This week's Java roundup for November 24th, 2025, features news highlighting: point releases of Spring Cloud, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, JobRunr, LangChain4j and Java Operator SDK; first release candidates of Hibernate Reactive and Gradle; and a maintenance release of Keycloak.
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Java News Roundup: Liberica JDK, Jakarta EE, Open Liberty, Quarkus, JDKUpdater, OpenXava, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for November 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: an update on Jakarta EE 12; patch set updates for Liberica JDK; the December 2025 beta release of Open Liberty; and maintenance releases of Quarkus, JobRunr, OpenXava, JDKUpdater and Gradle.
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Spring News Roundup: GA Releases of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith, Batch
Following the much anticipated release of Spring Framework 7.0, there was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of November 17th, 2025, highlighting additional GA releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs and Spring Batch.
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Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 Deliver API Versioning, Resilience, and Null-Safe Annotations
Broadcom released Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0, introducing first-class REST API versioning, JSpecify annotations for standardized null safety across the Spring portfolio, built-in resilience features such as retry and concurrency throttling, Jackson 3 for JSON processing, and modular autoconfiguration. The baselines are JDK 17 (while embracing JDK 25), Jakarta EE 11, and Kotlin 2.2.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data, Spring AI, Payara Platform, OpenJDK, JobRunr
This week's Java roundup for November 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 26; the GA release of Spring Framework 7.0; point releases of Spring Data, Spring AI, JobRunr and Jox; the November 2025 edition of Payara Platform; the fifth release candidate of Maven 4.0; and a maintenance release of Micronaut.
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Running Java on iOS: Gluon Introduces OpenJDK Mobile Resources and Automated Build Pipelines
OpenJDK is now able to build and run on iOS (and Android) as a native binary, opening the way to run unmodified Java code on mobile.
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Java News Roundup: New Jakarta AI Specification, GlassFish, Spring RCs, Infinispan 16, Open Liberty
This week's Java roundup for November 3rd, 2025, features news highlighting: a new Jakarta AI specification; the fourteenth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; second release candidates of Spring Boot 4.0, Spring for GraphQL 2.0 and Spring Batch 6.0; the release of Infinispan 16.0; and the November 2025 edition of Open Liberty.
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OpenJDK News Roundup: Vector API, Ahead-of-Time Object Caching, Prepare to Make Final Mean Final
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of November 3, 2025, highlighting three JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and three JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 26. The proposed release schedule has also been finalized.
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Grails 7.0, Now under the Apache Software Foundation, Delivers Enhancements for Micronaut and GORM
The release of Apache Grails 7.0.0 delivers notable changes such as: the ability to disable Micronaut auto configuration through the Grails plugin; improved reproducibility with implementations of GORM services; and a temporary removal of the GORM for Neo4J until it is compatible with Grails 7.0 or 8.0. InfoQ spoke to Søren Berg Glasius and James Fredley about this release.