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This week's Java Roundup for May 26th, 2025

This week's Java roundup features news highlighting: the twelfth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; four JEPs targeted for JDK 25; introducing the GPULlama3.java project powered by TornadoVM; and GA releases of Hibernate Reactive 3.0, Spring Modulith 1.4 and Spring Cloud 2025.0.

Java's 30th Birthday

On May 23rd, 1995, at the Sun World conference in San Francisco, California, Sun Microsystems formally introduced the Java programming language. Oracle marked this milestone with a six-hour 30th birthday event on May 23rd, 2025, featuring many Java luminaries and special guests.

Flurry of Activity in the OpenJDK Ecosystem

There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 12th, 2025, highlighting two JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and four JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 25; and one JEP elevated from its JEP Draft to Candidate status. Two of these will be finalized after their respective rounds of preview.

Recent Java Roundups

This week's Java roundup for May 5th, 2025, features news highlighting OpenJDK JEPs Targeted and Proposed to Target for JDK 25; new HotSpot-related JEPs, the first release candidate of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; the first developer release of Infinispan 16.0; and the release of JHipster 8.11.0 and Gatherers4j 0.11.0.

This week's Java roundup for April 28th, 2025, features news highlighting: four JEPs proposed to target and targeted for JDK 25; new JEPs; three new JEPs; the eighth milestone release of Spring AI 1.0.0; Quarkus 3.22.0; the first release candidate of LangChain4j 1.0.0; the release of JReleaser 1.18.0; and Wildfly joins the Commonhaus Foundation.

This week's Java roundup for April 14th, 2025, features news highlighting: the JDK 25 release schedule; the fourth milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0.0; the April 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; the release of JobRunr 7.5.0 and Jox 1.0.0; and Kroxylicious having joined the Commonhaus Foundation.

There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of April 14th, 2025, highlighting eight new JEPs having been elevated from their JEP Drafts to Candidate status. Four of these will be finalized after their respective rounds of preview.

This week's Java roundup for March 31st, 2025, features news highlighting: the formal release of the Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile; the eleventh milestone release of GlassFish 8.0.0; point releases TornadoVM 1.1.0, Micronaut 4.8.0 and JHipster 8.10.0; and a new JEP candidate to remove the Applet API.

This week's Java roundup for March 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted and proposed to target for JDK 25; the release of Jakarta NoSQL 1.0; the third milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the third release candidate of Maven 4.0; and the second beta release of LangChain4j 1.0.

Conclusion

This week's Java roundup for February 24th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview), Proposed to Target for JDK 25; milestone and point releases for Spring Modulith; the February 2025 release of Open Liberty; and the releases of Quarkus 3.19.0, JReleaser 1.17.0 and Gradle 8.13.0.

This week's Java roundup for February 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 24; JDK Mission Control 9.1.0; milestone releases of Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data 2025.0.0 and Hibernate 7.0; release candidates of Vert.x 5.0.0 and Gradle 8.13.0; and JHipster 8.9.0.

JDK 24, the third non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its first release candidate phase with a final set of 24 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into five categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, Security Library, HotSpot and Java Tools. We examine JDK 24 and predict what features have, or could be, targeted for JDK 25.

This week's Java roundup for January 20th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview); Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2025; the January 2025 release of the Payara Platform; GraalVM for JDK 23 Community 23.0.2; and BellSoft CPU patches for Liberica JDK.

This week's Java roundup for November 25th, 2024, features news highlighting: the last of the JEPs targeted to JDK 24 before Rampdown Phase One; the release of Quarkus 3.17.0, Hibernate Search 7.2.2, Kotlin 2.1.0 and JDKUpdater 14.0.67+100; the second release candidate of Vert.x 5.0 and the first release candidate of Maven 4.0.0.

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