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JDK 25 and JDK 26: What We Know So Far
JDK 25, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release since JDK 21, has reached its second release candidate with a final set of 18 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into four categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, Security Library and HotSpot. We examine JDK 25 and predict what features have, or could be, targeted for JDK 26.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework, Spring Data, Open Liberty, Hibernate Reactive, Quarkus, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for August 11th, 2025, features news highlighting: the eighth milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the fifth milestone release of Spring Data 2025.1.0; the August 2025 edition of Open Liberty; Hibernate Reactive 4.1; and the first release candidates of Quarkus 3.26 and Gradle 9.1.
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Jakarta EE 12 Will Focus on Consistency and Configuration
Before the release of Jakarta EE 11, preparations for Jakarta EE 12 were well underway as plan reviews for 24 Jakarta EE specifications were approved in early 2025. Scheduled for a GA release in July 2026, Jakarta EE 12 will focus on consistency and configuration, and require a minimum of JDK 21 along with support for the upcoming release of JDK 25.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25-RC1, Spring AI, WildFly 37, Payara Platform, LangChain4j, Grails
This week's Java roundup for August 4th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 25 and Grails 7.0; the release of WildFly 37; the August edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of LangChain4j, JBang and Hibernate projects; and maintenance releases of Spring AI, JobRunr and Apache Tomcat.
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JobRunr 8.0 Delivers Carbon-Aware Jobs, Kotlin Serialization and Dashboard Notification Center
The release of JobRunr 8.0 introduces carbon-aware job processing; support for Kotlin serialization; a new dashboard notification center; and a new annotation for reducing routine job creation boilerplate. Ronald Dehuysser, creator of JobRunr, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Java News Roundup: EclipseStore, Gradle, Hibernate Release Candidates, Piranha Cloud, LangChain4j
This week's Java roundup for July 28th, 2025, features news highlighting: GA releases of EclipseStore 3.0 and Gradle 9.0; release candidates for Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Reactive and Hibernate Search; Piranha Cloud moves to the Eclipse Foundation; and a point releases for Eclipse JNoSQL, Quarkus, Micronaut, JHipster and JDKUpdater.
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Java News Roundup: CLI Tool for Quarkus MCP, Groovy 5.0 Milestone, JHipster, GraalVM
This week's Java roundup for July 21st, 2025, features news highlighting: a new tool to use Quarkus MCP Client to access a secure Quarkus MCP Server from the command line; the second beta release of Groovy 5.0.0; and point releases for GraalVM Native Build Tools and JHipster Lite.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Kafka, Pulsar
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of July 21st, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka, Spring for Apache Pulsar and Spring Web Services.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in RDP2, Spring Framework, Payara Platform, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
This week's Java roundup for July 14th, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 25 in rampdown phase 2; the seventh milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the July 2025 editions of the Payara Platform, Open Liberty and Oracle Critical Patch Update; and Eclipse DataGrid is open-sourced.
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Java News Roundup: JobRunr 8, Gradle, Grails, Micronaut, JHipster, Tomcat CVE
This week's Java roundup for July 7th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of JobRunr 8.0; the second release candidate of Gradle 9.0; the fifth milestone release of Grails 7.0; point releases of Micronaut and JHipster Lite; and a CVE that affected Apache Tomcat.
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Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Micronaut, JReleaser, Tomcat, Quarkus Legacy Config Classes
This week's Java roundup for June 30th, 2025, features news highlighting: point and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Micronaut, JReleaser, Quarkus and Apache Tomcat; the beta release of Open Liberty 25.0.0.7; and sunsetting of the Quarkus legacy configuration classes.
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Jakarta EE 11 Delivers One New Specification, 16 Updated Specifications and Modernized TCK
Although a full GA release of Jakarta EE 11 was originally planned for July 2024, only the Core Profile and the Web Profile were delivered in December 2024 and April 2025, respectively. And now, the Jakarta EE 11 Platform has been delivered featuring one new specification and a new TCK. Ed Burns, release coordinator for Jakarta EE 11, spoke to InfoQ about the release of Jakarta EE 11.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Released, Agent2Agent Java SDK, Kotlin, WildFly, JobRunr, Maven
This week's Java roundup for June 23rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Jakarta EE 11; the new Agent2Agent Java SDK introduced by Red Hat; the release of Kotlin 2.2.0; the first beta release of WildFly 37; the first release candidate of JobRunr 8.0.0; and the fourth release candidate of Maven 4.0.
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MicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications
Ten months after the release of MicroProfile 7.0, the MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile to the Java community. This new release features continued alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and updates to two community-developed core APIs.
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GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java
The University of Manchester's Beehive Lab has released GPULlama3.java, marking the first Java-native implementation of Llama3 with automatic GPU acceleration. This project leverages TornadoVM to enable GPU-accelerated large language model inference without requiring developers to write CUDA or native code, potentially transforming how Java developers approach AI apps in enterprise environments.