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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.

OpenJDK

Oracle has released versions 23.0.2, 21.0.6, 17.0.14, 11.0.26, and 8u441 of the JDK as part of the quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory for April 2025. More details on this release may be found in the release notes for version 23.0.2, version 21.0.6, version 17.0.14, version 11.0.26 and version 8u441.

It was a busy week 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. Further details may be found in this InfoQ news story.

JDK 25

Build 19 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 18 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

After its review has concluded, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, formally declared the release schedule for JDK 25 as follows:

• Rampdown Phase One (fork from main line): June 5, 2025
• Rampdown Phase Two: July 17, 2025
• Initial Release Candidate: August 7, 2025
• Final Release Candidate: August 21, 2025
• General Availability: September 16, 2025

For JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

BellSoft

Concurrent with Oracle’s Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April 2025, BellSoft has released CPU patches for versions 21.0.6.0.1, 17.0.14.0.1, 11.0.26.0.1, 8u451, 7u461 and 6u461 of Liberica JDK, their downstream distribution of OpenJDK, to address this list of CVEs. In addition, Patch Set Update (PSU) versions 24.0.1, 21.0.7, 17.0.15, 11.0.27 and 8u452, containing CPU and non-critical fixes, have also been released.

With an overall total of 740 fixes and backports, BellSoft states that they have participated in eliminating 38 issues in all releases.

Spring Framework

The fourth milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0.0 delivers improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new OptionalToObjectConverter class to automatically convert an Optional to its contained object; and a new ClassFileMetadataReader class that supports JEP 484, Class-File API, for reading and writing classes as Java bytecode. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

The first release candidate of Spring for GraphQL 1.4.0 ships with improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new graphql.dataloader observation that measures data loading operations so that recorded traces are much more precise; and improvements to the server transports so that reactive data fetcher operations will be cancelled in-flight and further data fetching calls (blocking or reactive) will be avoided. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Payara

Payara has released their April 2025 edition of the Payara Platform that includes Community Edition 6.2025.4, Enterprise Edition 6.25.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.74.0. All three releases deliver dependency upgrades and new features: the ability to customize logs sent to the remote system log servers for more control over log management; and the addition of a new connection pool property to disable the verification of client information properties when pooling is set to false. Further details on these releases may be found in the release notes for Community Edition 6.2025.4 and Enterprise Edition 6.25.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.74.0.

Micronaut

The Micronaut Foundation has released version 4.8.2 of the Micronaut Framework featuring Micronaut Core 4.8.11, bug fixes and patch updates to modules: Micronaut Maven Plugin; Micronaut JSON Schema; Micronaut Micrometer; and Micronaut Servlet. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

JobRunr

The release of JobRunr 7.5.0 features: support for Quarkus 3.20.0 and Micronaut 4.8.0; improved detection of misconfiguration between JobRequest and JobRequestHandler interfaces; and the ability to configure an instance of the InMemoryStorageProvider class using properties. There is a breaking change for developers who use Quarkus and Micronaut. The behavior to automatically fall back to the InMemoryStorageProvider class if no instance of the StorageProvider interface has been removed. Developers will need to explicitly configure this by setting the jobrunr.database.type property to mem or by providing a custom bean. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Jox

The release of Jox 1.0.0, a virtual threads library that implements an efficient Channel data structure in Java designed to be used with virtual threads, features many dependency upgrades and notable changes: the removal of the collectAsView() method from the Source interface and the CollectSource class as this functionality is offered from the Flows class; and configuration of the newly integrated Renovate automated dependency update tool. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Micrometer

The first release candidate of Micrometer Metrics 1.15.0 provides bug fixes and new features such as: enhancements to the OtlpMetricsSender interface that provides an immutable Request inner class and a corresponding builder for convenience; and the addition of metrics for the newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor() method defined in the Java Executors class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

The first release candidate of Micrometer Tracing 1.5.0 ships with a dependency upgrade to Micrometer Metrics 1.15.0-RC1 and a new feature that removes the dependency on the incubation of the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation API. (opentelemetry-instrumentation-api-incubator). More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Project Reactor

The second milestone release of Project Reactor 2025.0.0 provides dependency upgrades to reactor-core 3.8.0-M2, reactor-netty 1.3.0-M2, reactor-pool 1.2.0-M2. There was also a realignment to version 2025.0.0-M2 with the reactor-addons 3.5.2, reactor-kotlin-extensions 1.2.3 and reactor-kafka 1.3.23 artifacts that remain unchanged. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Similarly, Project Reactor 2024.0.5, the fifth maintenance release, provides dependency upgrades to reactor-core 3.7.5 and reactor-netty 1.2.5. There was also a realignment to version 2024.0.5 with the reactor-addons 3.5.2, reactor-pool 1.1.2, reactor-kotlin-extensions 1.2.3 and reactor-kafka 1.3.23 artifacts that remain unchanged. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Commonhaus Foundation

The Commonhaus Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the sustainability of open source libraries and frameworks, has announced that Kroxylicious has joined the foundation this past week. Kroxylicious is an “early-stage project which seeks to lower the cost of developing Kafka proxies by providing a lot of the common requirements out-of-the-box.” This allows developers to focus on the required logic to get their proxies to perform their tasks.

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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.

JEP 512, Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods, has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8344699 to Candidate status. Formerly known as Simple Source Files and Instance Main Methods, this JEP proposes to finalize this feature, with improvements, after four rounds of preview, namely: JEP 495, Simple Source Files and Instance Main Methods (Fourth Preview), delivered in JDK 24; JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), delivered in JDK 23; JEP 463, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Second Preview), delivered in JDK 22; and JEP 445, Unnamed Classes and Instance Main Methods (Preview), delivered in JDK 21. This feature aims to “evolve the Java language so that students can write their first programs without needing to understand language features designed for large programs.” This JEP moves forward the September 2022 blog post, Paving the on-ramp, by Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle. Gavin Bierman, Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, has published the first draft of the specification document for review by the Java community. More details on JEP 445 may be found in this InfoQ news story.

JEP 511, Module Import Declarations, has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8344700 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes to finalize this feature, without change, after two rounds of preview, namely: JEP 494, Module Import Declarations (Second Preview), delivered in JDK 24; and JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview), delivered in JDK 23. This feature will enhance the Java programming language with the ability to succinctly import all of the packages exported by a module with a goal to simplify the reuse of modular libraries without requiring to import code to be in a module itself.

JEP 510, Key Derivation Function API, has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8353275 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes to finalize this feature, without change, after one round of preview, namely: JEP 478, Key Derivation Function API (Preview), delivered in JDK 24. This features introduces an API for Key Derivation Functions (KDFs), cryptographic algorithms for deriving additional keys from a secret key and other data, with goals to: allow security providers to implement KDF algorithms in either Java or native code; and enable the use of KDFs in implementations of JEP 452, Key Encapsulation Mechanism.

JEP 509, JFR CPU-Time Profiling (Experimental) has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8337789 to Candidate status. This experimental JEP proposes to enhance the JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) to allow for capturing CPU-time profiling information on Linux OS.

JEP 508, Vector API (Tenth Incubator), has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8353296 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes a tenth incubation in JDK 25, with no API changes and no substantial implementation changes since JDK 24, after nine rounds of incubation, namely: JEP 489, Vector API (Ninth Incubator), delivered in JDK 24; JEP 469, Vector API (Eighth Incubator), delivered in JDK 23; JEP 460, Vector API (Seventh Incubator), delivered in JDK 22; JEP 448, Vector API (Sixth Incubator), delivered in JDK 21; JEP 438, Vector API (Fifth Incubator), delivered in JDK 20; JEP 426, Vector API (Fourth Incubator), delivered in JDK 19; JEP 417, Vector API (Third Incubator), delivered in JDK 18; JEP 414, Vector API (Second Incubator), delivered in JDK 17; and JEP 338, Vector API (Incubator), delivered as an incubator module in JDK 16. This feature introduces an API to “express vector computations that reliably compile at runtime to optimal vector instructions on supported CPU architectures, thus achieving performance superior to equivalent scalar computations.” The Vector API will continue to incubate until the necessary features of Project Valhalla become available as preview features. At that time, the Vector API team will adapt the Vector API and its implementation to use them, and will promote the Vector API from Incubation to Preview.

JEP 507, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Third Preview), has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8349215 to Candidate status. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Amber, proposes a third round of preview, without change, to gain additional experience and feedback from the previous two rounds of preview, namely: JEP 488, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Second Preview), delivered in JDK 24; and JEP 455, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview), delivered in JDK 23. This feature enhances pattern matching by allowing primitive type patterns in all pattern contexts, and extending instanceof and switch to work with all primitive types. More details may be found in this draft specification by Aggelos Biboudis, Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle.

JEP 506, Scoped Values, has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8352695 to Candidate status. Formerly known as Extent-Local Variables (Incubator), this JEP proposes to finalize this feature, without change, after four rounds of preview, namely: JEP 487, Scoped Values (Fourth Preview), delivered in JDK 24; JEP 481, Scoped Values (Third Preview), delivered in JDK 23; JEP 464, Scoped Values (Second Preview), delivered in JDK 22; JEP 446, Scoped Values (Preview), delivered in JDK 21; and JEP 429, Scoped Values (Incubator), delivered in JDK 20. This feature enables sharing of immutable data within and across threads. This is preferred to thread-local variables, especially when using large numbers of virtual threads.

JEP 505, Structured Concurrency (Fifth Preview), has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8340343 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes a fifth preview, with several API changes, to gain more feedback from the previous four rounds of preview, namely: JEP 499, Structured Concurrency (Fourth Preview), delivered in JDK 24; JEP 480, Structured Concurrency (Third Preview), delivered in JDK 23; JEP 462, Structured Concurrency (Second Preview), delivered in JDK 22; and JEP 453, Structured Concurrency (Preview), delivered in JDK 21. This feature simplifies concurrent programming by introducing structured concurrency to “treat groups of related tasks running in different threads as a single unit of work, thereby streamlining error handling and cancellation, improving reliability, and enhancing observability.” One of the proposed API changes involves the StructuredTaskScope interface to be opened via static factory methods rather than public constructors.

JDK 25 Feature Set (So Far) and Release Schedule

The JDK 25 release schedule, as approved by Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, is as follows:

• Rampdown Phase One (fork from main line): June 5, 2025
• Rampdown Phase Two: July 17, 2025
• Initial Release Candidate: August 7, 2025
• Final Release Candidate: August 21, 2025
• General Availability: September 16, 2025

With less than two months before the scheduled Rampdown Phase One, where the feature set for JDK 25 will be frozen, these are the two JEPs included in the feature set so far:

Despite not having been formally targeted at this time, it has already been determined that JEP 508, Vector API (Tenth Incubator), will be included in the feature set for JDK 25.

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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.

OpenJDK

JEP 504, Remove the Applet API, was elevated from its JEP Draft 8345525 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes to remove the Applet API, deprecated in JDK 17, due it’s continued obsolescence since applets are no longer supported in web browsers.

JDK 25

Build 17 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 16 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

GlassFish

The eleventh milestone release of GlassFish 8.0.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and improved specification compatibility for various new features of Jakarta EE 11. This relese passes the final Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile TCK. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Jakarta EE 11

In his weekly Hashtag Jakarta EE blog, Ivar Grimstad, Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation, provided an update on Jakarta EE 11, writing:

Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile is released! It’s a little later than planned, but we’re finally there, and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile joins Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile among the released specifications. It has been a tremendous effort to refactor the TCK.

Eclipse GlassFish was used as the ratifying compatible implementation of Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile. I would expect other implementations, such as Open Liberty, WildFly, Payara, and more to follow suit over the next weeks and months. Check out the expanding list of compatible products of Jakarta EE 11.

The road to Jakarta EE 11 included four milestone releases, the release of the Core Profile in December 2024, the release of Web Profile in April 2025, and a fifth milestone and first release candidate of the Platform before its anticipated release in 2Q 2025.

TornadoVM

The release of TornadoVM 1.1.0 provides bug fixes and improvements such as: support for mixed precision FP16 to FP32 computations for matrix operations; and a new method, mapOnDeviceMemoryRegion(), defined in the TornadoExecutionPlan class that introduces a new Mapping On Device Memory Regions feature that offers device buffer mapping for different buffers. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Micronaut

The Micronaut Foundation has released version 4.8.0 of the Micronaut Framework featuring Micronaut Core 4.8.9 that include: improvements to the Micronaut SourceGen module that now powers bytecode generation of internal metadata and expressions; and the ability to activate dependency injection tracing so that developers can better understand what Micronaut is doing at startup and when a particular bean is created. There were also updates to many of Micronuat’s modules. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Quarkus

Quarkus 3.21.1, the first maintenance release, ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and improvements such as: allow execution model annotations (@Blocking, @NonBlocking, etc.) on methods annotated with SmallRye GraphQL @Resolver due to the resolver throwing an error; and a resolution to a Java UnsupportedOperationException when using the TlsConfigUtils class to configure TLS options in a Quarkus project using the Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) extension. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

JHipster

The release of JHipster 8.10.0 provides notable changes such as: a workaround to a ClassCastException using Spring Boot and Hazelcast upon logging in to a JHipster application; numerous dependency upgrades, most notably Spring 3.4.4; and many internal improvements to the code base. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

The release of JHipster Lite 1.31.0 ships with a dependency upgrades to Vite 6.2.4 that resolves two CVEs affecting previous versions of Vite 6.2.4 and 6.2.3, namely: CVE-2025-31125, a vulnerability, resolved in version 6.2.4, in which Vite exposes content of non-allowed files using URL expressions ?inline&import or ?raw?import, to the development server; and CVE-2025-30208, a vulnerability, resolved in version 6.2.3, where the restrictions imposed by the Vite /@fs/ filesystem variable can be bypassed by adding expressions, ?raw?? or ?import&raw??, to the URL and returns file content if it exists. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

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This week’s Java roundup for March 24th, 2025 features news highlighting: updates for Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI; the first beta release of WildFly 36.0; the third alpha release of Hibernate Search 8.0; the March 2023 release of Open Liberty; and point releases for Quarkus, Infinispan, JHipster and OpenXava.

OpenJDK

JEP 503, Remove the 32-bit x86 Port, has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 25. This JEP proposes to “remove the source code and build support for the 32-bit x86 port.” This feature is a follow-up from JEP 501, Deprecate the 32-bit x86 Port for Removal, delivered in JDK 24.

JDK 25

Build 16 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 15 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

Jakarta EE

In his weekly Hashtag Jakarta EE blog, Ivar Grimstad, Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation, provided an update on Jakarta EE 11 and Jakarta EE 12, writing:

The Release Review for Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile has started! According to the process, it will conclude on April 7 at the latest. When I write this, seven out of ten members have voted “+1,” which means that super-majority is reached and Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile in practice has passed the release review.

So, what about the Jakarta EE 11 Platform? The status, as of Wednesday [March 26, 2025] is that we are down to ~50 test failures, most of which pass for Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile. This is an indication that there is some configuration or setting for the CI jobs that may be the problem.

Plan reviews for the component specifications targeting Jakarta EE 12 are ongoing. So far eight specifications have completed, or are in the process of completing their plan reviews. More are expected to follow as we get closer to April 15, the deadline communicated by the Jakarta EE Platform project. Check out the Jakarta EE 12 Plan Reviews Project Board for a complete overview.

The road to Jakarta EE 11 included four milestone releases, the release of the Core Profile in December 2024, and the potential for release candidates as necessary before the GA releases of the Web Profile in 1Q 2025 and the Platform in 2Q 2025.

Eclipse JNoSQL

The release of Eclipse JNoSQL 1.1.6, the compatible implementation of the Jakarta NoSQL and Jakarta Data specifications, provides bug fixes, performance improvements and new features such as: a new GraphTemplate interface that supports NoSQL Graph databases; and enhancement to CDI Lite for improved performance and compatibility. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

BellSoft

In conjunction with the release of JDK 24 and GraalVM for JDK 24, BellSoft has also released version 24.2.0 of Liberica Native Image Kit. Enhancements include: experimental support for the jcmd diagnostic tool on Linux and macOS that complements the existing Native Image monitoring capabilities such as the JDK Flight Recorder (JFR).

Spring Framework

The Spring AI team has posted important changes and updates for using version 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT. These include artifact IDs, dependency management and autoconfiguration. The most significant change is the naming pattern for Spring AI starter artifacts: for model starters, the spring-ai-{model}-spring-boot-starter artifact has been renamed to spring-ai-starter-model-{model}; for vector store starters, the spring-ai-{store}-store-spring-boot-starter artifact has been renamed to spring-ai-starter-vector-store-{store}; and for MCP starters, the spring-ai-mcp-{type}-spring-boot-starter artifact has been renamed to spring-ai-starter-mcp-{type}.

The Spring AI team offers two methods for developers to update their projects: update automatically using AI tools or update manually.

Quarkus

Versions 3.21.0 and 3.20.0 of Quarkus (announced here and here, respectively), the former designated as a new LTS version, with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for the MongoDB Client extension in their TLS Registry; and enable the Jakarta RESTful Web Services ClientRequestFilter interface run on the same Vert.x context as other handlers to resolve a context propagation issue with blocking REST Clients. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Open Liberty

IBM has released version 25.0.0.3 of Open Liberty with new features such as: the ability to configure a shared library using a new configuration element, path, that complement the existing file, folder and fileset configuration elements in an XML file; and compliance with FIPS 140-3, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules, for the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 8.

WildFly

The first beta release of WildFly 36.0.0 delivers big fixes, dependency upgrades and enhancements such as: the jboss.as.jpa.classtransformer persistence unit is now enabled by default for improved performance; and a warning is now logged should more than one metrics system be enabled. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Hibernate

The third alpha release of Hibernate Search 8.0.0 ships with: an alignment with Hibernate ORM 7.0.0.Beta5 that implements the Jakarta Persistence 3.2 specification; and a migration to the Hibernate Models ClassDetailsRegistry interface, based on the Jandex index, to replace the deprecated getJandexView() method defined in the BootstrapContext interface. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Infinispan

The release of Infinispan 15.2.0.Final, codenamed Feelin’ Blue, ships with bug fixes, many dependency upgrades and new features such as: an implementation of the Redis JSON API; and a new look and feel to the console based on the recent upgrade to PatternFly 6. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache TomEE 10.0.1, the first maintenance release, provides dependency upgrades and resolutions to notable issues such as: Jakarta Expression Language expressions in Jakarta Faces not working with Eclipse Mojarra, the compatible implementation of Jakarta Faces specification; and the addition of the missing service-jar.xml file in the Serverless Builder API and Embedded Scenarios due to the file being omitted from the BOMs when the TomEE webapp was removed. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

JHipster

The release of JHipster Lite 1.30.0 ships with bug fixes, improvements in documentation and new features such as: the use of colors to identify modules by rank; and a new display to filter the rank options in the frontend. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

OpenXava

The release of OpenXava 7.5 released delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for hot code reloading during development without affecting performance in production; and UI improvements that include rounded corners for various widgets; and a flat design applied to most UI elements, thus removing shadows. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

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This week’s Java roundup for March 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 24 and Apache Kafka 4.0; the March 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; Spring Security CVEs; and JavaOne 2025.

JDK 24

Oracle has released version 24 of the Java programming language and virtual machine, which ships with a final feature set of 24 JEPs. More details may be found in this InfoQ news story.

JDK 25

Build 15 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 14 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 24 and JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

GraalVM

In conjunction with the release of JDK 24, the released of GraalVM for JDK 24 by Oracle Labs delivers new features such as: Graal Neural Network (GNN), a new static profiler that “provides a new generation of machine learning-powered profile inference” (available only on Oracle GraalVM); SkipFlow, a new experimental extension to Native Image static analysis that “tracks primitive values and evaluates branching conditions dynamically during the analysis process;” and an optimized Foreign Function and Memory API in Native Image with new specialized upcalls for direct method handles. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and the upcoming GraalVM for JDK 24 release stream on YouTube. InfoQ will follow up with a more detailed news story.

BellSoft Liberica

The release of Liberica JDK 24, BellSoft’s downstream distribution of OpenJDK 24, includes 2,597 bug fixes in the JDK and 175 bug fixes in JavaFX. Developers may download this latest version from this website.

Project Loom

Build 25-loom+1-11 of the Project Loom early-access builds was made available to the Java community this past week and is based on Build 13 of the JDK 25 early-access builds. This build improves the implementation of Java monitors (synchronized methods) for enhanced interoperability with virtual threads.

Spring Framework

It was a busy week over at Spring as the various teams have delivered milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring Web Services.There were also point releases of Spring Batch and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Further details may be found in this InfoQ news story.

The Spring team has disclosed two CVEs that affect Spring Security:

Josh Long, Spring developer advocate at Broadcom, has tweeted that March 24, 2025 marks 21 years since the formal GA release of Spring Framework 1.0.

Payara

Payara has released their March 2025 edition of the Payara Platform that includes Community Edition 6.2025.3, Enterprise Edition 6.24.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.73.0. All three releases provide bug fixes, security fixes, dependency upgrades and two improvements: the ability to specify the global context root for any deployed application using the payaramicro.globalContextRoot property; and a CORBA update to use the new implementation of Jakarta Concurrency 3.1 instead of synchronized blocks.

This edition also delivers Payara 7.2025.1.Alpha1 featuring full support for the Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile, released in December 2024, along with the same improvements in Payara Platform 6. More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for Community Edition 6.2025.3 and Enterprise Edition 6.24.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.73.0.

Apache Software Foundation

The release of Apache Kafka 4.0.0 delivers bug fixes, many improvements and new features such as: client support for subscribing with the new SubscriptionPattern class; and the ability for developers to rebootstrap clients based on timeout or error code. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Hibernate

The fifth beta release of Hibernate ORM 7.0.0 features: a migration to the Jakarta Persistence 3.2 specification, the latest version targeted for Jakarta EE 11; a baseline of JDK 17; improved domain model validations; and a migration from Hibernate Commons Annotations (HCANN) to the new Hibernate Models project for low-level processing of an application domain model. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and the migration guide.

The second alpha release of Hibernate Search 8.0.0 ships with: fixes discovered in the Alpha1 release; an alignment with Hibernate ORM 7.0.0.Beta4 that implements the Jakarta Persistence 3.2 specification; and dependency upgrades to Lucene 10.1.0, OpenSearch 2.19 and Elasticsearch Client 8.17.3. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Kotlin

The release of Kotlin 2.1.20 provides new features such as: a new K2 compiler kapt plugin that is enabled by default for all the projects; and an experimental DSL that replaces the Gradle Application plugin that is no longer compatible with the Kotlin Multiplatform Gradle plugin. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

RefactorFirst

Jim Bethancourt, principal software consultant at Improving, an IT services firm offering training, consulting, recruiting, and project services, has released version 0.7.0 of RefactorFirst, a utility that prioritizes the parts of an application that should be refactored. This release delivers: improved rendering of class maps and cycles using the 3D Force-Directed Graph; and limiting the cycle analysis to 10 cycles that will be parameterized in the future. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

JavaOne 2025

JavaOne 2025 was held on March 18-20, 2025, at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. This three-day event consisting of keynotes, presentations and hands-on labs, is organized by Oracle and the developer relations team. The session catalog provides all of the details. Details on Day One of JavaOne, in conjunction with the formal release of JDK 24, may be found in this InfoQ news story. InfoQ will follow-up with additional news stories.

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There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of March 17th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring Web Services.

Spring Boot

The third milestone release of Spring Boot 3.5.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and many new features such as: a new LLdapDockerComposeConnectionDetailsFactory class that adds ServiceConnection support for Light LDAP Implementation for Authentication; improved support for OpenTelemetry by correctly using the service.namespace service attribute; and improved support for Spring Batch with enhancements and new properties. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Similarly, the release of Spring Boot 3.4.4 and 3.3.10 (announced here and here, respectively) provides bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and an important change where support for the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) for Tomcat is now disabled by default with applications running on JDK 24 and above to prevent the JDK from issuing warnings. Further details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 3.4.4 and version 3.3.10.

Spring Framework

The release of Spring Framework 6.2.5 provides bug fixes, improvements in documentation, one dependency upgrade and new features such as: the comment() method, defined in the ServerResponse.SseBuilder interface, now allows an empty comment; and an instance of the FormHttpMessageConverter class should throw HttpMessageNotReadableException when the HTTP form data is invalid because it is a more specific exception that will allow developers to better target and react to invalid request payloads. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring Cloud

The release of Spring Cloud 2024.0.1, codenamed Mooregate, features bug fixes and notable updates to sub-projects: Spring Cloud Kubernetes 3.2.1; Spring Cloud Function 4.2.2; Spring Cloud OpenFeign 4.2.1; Spring Cloud Stream 4.2.1; and Spring Cloud Gateway 4.2.1. This release is based upon Spring Boot 3.4.3. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring Security

The third milestone release of Spring Security 6.5.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for RFC 9068, JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens; deprecation of the ConfigAttribute interface as modern Spring Security APIs no longer share a common interface to represent configuration values; and support for automatic context-propagation with Micrometer. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring Authorization Server

The second milestone release of Spring Authorization Server 1.5.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: improvements to the JdbcOAuth2AuthorizationService class that define and use constants for the SQL parameter mapping values; and support for RFC 9126, OAuth 2.0 Pushed Authorization Requests. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring for GraphQL

The first milestone release of Spring for GraphQL 1.4.0 provides dependency upgrades and new features such as: an alignment with the GraphQL over HTTP draft specification; and improved Federation support by upgrading to Apollo GraphQL Federation 5.3.0. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring Integration

The third milestone release of Spring Integration 6.5.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: enabling the LastModifiedFileListFilters class to discard files that have aged out; and removal of the deprecated getSendTimeout() and setSendTimeout() methods, previously defined in the PollerMetadata class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring Modulith

The third milestone release of Spring Modulith 1.4.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: integration tests using the @ApplicationModuleTest annotation may now consume bean instances of classes declared in test sources; and registration of the AssertablePublishedEvents interface in tests using the Spring Framework ApplicationContext interface if AssertJ is on the classpath. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Similarly, the release of Spring Modulith 1.3.4 and 1.2.10 provide dependency upgrades and a resolution to a severe performance regression in JavaPackage class when testing an instance of the Documenter class. Further details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 1.3.4 and version 1.2.10.

Spring Batch

The release of Spring Batch 5.2.2 provides bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and improvements such as: the addition of AOT hints in infrastructure artifacts and core listeners that were previously missing; and an improved ChunkProcessor interface as it is now annotated with the Java @FunctionalInterface. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring AMQP

The second milestone release of Spring AMQP 4.0.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for the AMQP 1.0 protocol on RabbitMQ with a new spring-rabbitmq-client module; and support for RPC in the new RabbitAmqpTemplate class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring for Apache Kafka

The first milestone release of Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a migration of all the former org.springframework.lang nullability annotations to the JSpecify-based null safety improvements; and improved performance of the acknowledge(int index) method and an override of the createRecordList() methods, defined in the KafkaMessageListenerContainer class. This version is compatible with Spring Framework 7.0.0-M3. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring for Apache Pulsar

The release of Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.4 and 1.1.10 provides notable respective dependency upgrades to: Spring Framework 6.2.4 and 6.1.18; Project Reactor 2024.0.4 and 2023.0.16; and Micrometer 1.14.5 and 1.13.12. These releases are included in Spring Boot 3.4.4 and 3.3.10, respectively. Further details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 1.2.4 and version 1.1.10.

Spring Web Services

The first milestone release of Spring Web Services 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a reinstatement of support for Apache Axiom as the recent release of Axiom 2.0.0 now supports Jakarta EE; and the deprecation of the WsConfigurerAdapter class as it is no longer needed due to the introduction of default methods. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

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This week’s Java roundup for March 3rd, 2025, features news highlighting: milestone releases of Spring Cloud 2025.0.0, GlassFish 8.0.0 and Grails 7.0.0; point releases of Spring gRPC 0.4.0, Helidon 4.2.0, Quarkus 3.19.2 and JHipster 1.29.1 and 1.29.0; the fourth release candidate of Netty 4.2.0; and Devnexus 2025.

JDK 24

Build 36 remains the current build in the JDK 24 early-access builds. Further details may be found in the release notes.

JDK 25

Build 13 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 12 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 24 and JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

GlassFish

The tenth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: various updates to support the upcoming release of JDK 24; disable the deprecated TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 specifications by default; and a migration away from deprecated WeldListener class in favor of the WeldInitialListener class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring Framework

The second milestone release of Spring Cloud 2025.0.0, codenamed Northfields, features bug fixes and notable updates to sub-projects: Spring Cloud Kubernetes 3.3.0-M2; Spring Cloud Function 4.3.0-M2; Spring Cloud Stream 4.3.0-M2; and Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker 3.3.0-M2. This release is based upon Spring Boot 3.5.0-M2. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

The release of Spring gRPC 0.4.0 provides bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new ChannelBuilderOptions class used for customizers, graceful channel shutdowns and interceptors that was added to the GrpcChannelFactory and GrpcChannelBuilderCustomizer interfaces; and a rename of the GrpcChannelConfigurer interface to GrpcChannelBuilderCustomizer to “more accurately represent its purpose and for consistency with the server-side terminology.” Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Helidon

The release of Helidon 4.2.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new preview features:

• Helidon Service Inject, an extension to the core service registry that adds concepts of injection into a constructor, instances of scoped service instances, and an intercept method invocation. This change removes the original Helidon Inject, i.e., modules under the inject/ endpoint, and replaces all usages with the service registry.
• A LangChain4j integration with the service registry and an OpenAI provider and Oracle embedding store provider.
• Support for Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC).

More details on this release may be found in the changelog.

Quarkus

Quarkus 3.19.2, the first maintenance release (version 3.19.0 was skipped), ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a much improved Quarkus update utility for stability and aesthetics; and improved interoperability between an instance of the QuarkusUnitTest class and the JUnit @TestFactory annotation. Further details on this release may be found in the changelog.

Netty

The fourth release candidate of Netty 4.2.0 provides bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for a new property, IORING_SETUP_CQSIZE, that allows a larger completion queue (CQ) ring without changing the size of the submission queue (SQ) ring; and a requirement that an instance of the ThreadExecutorMap class must restore old instance of the EventExecutor interface to eliminate losing the current EventExecutor. More details on this release may be found in the issue tracker.

Grails

The third milestone release of Grails 7.0.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: an updated ContainerGebSpec class to support cross-platform file input and inclusion of the Geb ScreenshotReporter by default; and a consolidation of various projects and profiles to reduce the time to publish a release. With the transition of Grails to the Apache Foundation, the next milestone is planned to be released as Apache Grails 7.0.0-M4. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

JHipster

The release of JHipster Lite 1.29.1 and 1.29.0 features an upgrade to Axios 1.8.2 that resolves a critical security issue as described in CVE-2025-27152, a vulnerability in Axios, up to and including version 1.8.1, where passing absolute URLs, rather than protocol-relative URLs, to Axios even if the baseURL property is defined. The request to the specified absolute URL is sent with the potential to cause a server-side request forgery (SSRF) and a leakage of credentials. More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 1.29.1 and version 1.29.0.

Devnexus 2025

The 21st edition of Devnexus 2025, held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, this past week, featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks on topics such as: Jakarta EE, Java Platform, Core Java, Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure and Security.

Hosted by the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG), Devnexus has a rich history that dates back to 2004 when the conference was originally called DevCon. The Devnexus name was introduced in 2010.

The conference also featured on-site live interviews with speakers interested in participating. Entitled Unfiltered Developer Insights and Everyday Heroes, these interviews were facilitated by employees representing Neo4j and HeroDevs, respectively. Also, a new episode of OffHeap was recorded featuring Erin Schnabel, Ivar Grimstad and Bob Paulin.

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This week’s Java roundup for February 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Apache NetBeans 25; the February 2025 release of the Payara Platform; the second beta release of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the second release candidate of Gradle 8.13.

JDK 24

Build 36 remains the current build in the JDK 24 early-access builds. Further details may be found in the release notes.

JDK 25

Build 11 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 10 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 24 and JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

Spring Framework

It was a busy week over at Spring as the various teams have delivered milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring AI and Spring AMQP. There were also point releases of Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL,Spring Session, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Further details may be found in this InfoQ news story.

Payara

Payara has released their February 2025 edition of the Payara Platform that includes Community Edition 6.2025.2, Enterprise Edition 6.23.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.72.0. All three releases provide critical bug fixes, component upgrades and a new feature that ensures Docker images shutdown gracefully to allow applications to cleanly terminate without data loss or corruption.

A notable critical issue was an IllegalStateException due to Spring Boot 3 applications failing to deploy to Payara Server 6. This was resolved by ensuring proper initialization of Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) during deployment. More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for Community Edition 6.2025.2 and Enterprise Edition 6.23.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.72.0.

Apache Software Foundation

The release of Apache NetBeans 25 delivers many improvements that include: enhancements in support for Java code completion for sealed types in switch statements; improved behaviour with the CloneableEditorSupport class such that it will no longer break additional instances of the Java DocumentFilter class which may be attached to an instance of the Java AbstractDocument class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

The release of Apache Tomcat 9.0.100 provides a resolution to a regression with the release of Tomcat 9.0.99 that caused an error while starting Tomcat on JDK 17. The regression was a mitigation for CVE-2024-56337, a Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use vulnerability in which a write-enabled default servlet for a case insensitive file system can bypass Tomcat’s case sensitivity checks and cause an uploaded file to be treated as a JSP leading to a remote code execution. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Hibernate

The second beta release of Hibernate Reactive 3.0.0 ships with resolutions to notable issue such as: a ClassCastException from an instance of the ReactiveEmbeddableForeignKeyResultImpl class due to use of the Hibernate ORM EmbeddableInitializerImpl class instead of its reactive version, namely the ReactiveEmbeddableInitializerImpl class; and a NullPointerException when retrieving an entity using a Jakarta Persistence @ManyToOne composite table with additional properties in the Jakarta Persistence @IdClass annotation. This release is compatible with Hibernate ORM 7.0.0.Beta4, and an upgrade to Vert.x SQL client 4.5.13. Further details on this release may be found in the changelog.

JobRunr

The release of JobRunr 7.4.1 ships with bug fixes and new features such as: the ability to switch between different date styles in job table views, e.g., the timestamp when an instance of the Job class was enqueued; and an enhanced display for more complex job parameters on the job details page. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Gradle

The second release candidate of Gradle 8.13.0 introduces a new auto-provisioning utility that automatically downloads a JVM required by the Gradle Daemon. Other notable enhancements include: an explicit Scala version configuration for the Scala Plugin to automatically resolve required Scala toolchain dependencies; and refined millisecond precision in JUnit XML test event timestamps. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

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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.

OpenJDK

The release of JDK Mission Control 9.1.0 provides bug fixes and improvements such as: the ability to use the custom JFR event types, i.e., those extending the Java Event class, in the JFR Writer API followed by registering those types; and the ability to use primitive types in converters. More details on this release may be found in the list of issues.

JDK 24

Build 36 remains the current build in the JDK 24 early-access builds. Further details may be found in the release notes.

As per the JDK 24 release schedule, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, formally declared that JDK 24 has entered its first release candidate as there are no unresolved P1 bugs in Build 36. The anticipated GA release is scheduled for March 18, 2025 and will include a final set of 24 features. More details on these features and predictions for JDK 25 may be found in this InfoQ news story.

JDK 25

Build 10 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 9 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 24 and JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

Spring Framework

The second milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0.0 delivers new features such as: improvements to the equals() method, defined in the AnnotatedMethod class, and the HandlerMethod to resolve failed Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configuration lookups; and a refinement of the GenericApplicationContext class that adds nullability using the JSpecify @Nullable annotation to the constructorArgs parameter listed in the overloaded registerBean() method. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Similarly, versions 6.2.3 and 6.1.17 of Spring Framework have also been released to provide new features such as: improvements in MVC XML configuration that resolved an issue where the handler mapping, using an instance of the the AntPathMatcher class, instead used an instance of the PathPatternParser class; and a change to the ProblemDetails class to implement the Java Serializable interface so that it may be used in distributed environments. These versions will be included in the upcoming releases of Spring Boot 3.4.3 (and 3.5.0-M2) and 3.3.9, respectively. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes for version 6.2.3 and version 6.1.17.

The first milestone release of Spring Data 2025.0.0 ships with new features such as: support for vector search for MongoDB and Cassandra via MongoDB Atlas and Cassandra Vector Search; and a new Vector data type that allows for abstracting underlying values within a domain model that simplifies the declaration, portability and default storage options. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Similarly, Spring Data 2024.1.3 and 2024.0.9, both service releases, ship with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and and respective dependency upgrades to sub-projects such as: Spring Data Commons 3.4.3 and 3.3.9; Spring Data MongoDB 4.4.3 and 4.3.9; Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.4.3 and 5.3.9; and Spring Data Neo4j 7.4.3 and 7.3.9. These versions will be included in the upcoming releases of Spring Boot and 3.4.3 and 3.3.9, respectively.

The release of Spring Tools 4.28.1 provides: a properly signed Eclipse Foundation distribution for WindowOS; and a resolution to an unknown publisher error upon opening the executable for Spring Tool Suite in Windows 11. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Open Liberty

IBM has released version 25.0.0.2-beta of Open Liberty features the ability to configure the MicroProfile Telemetry 2.0 feature, mpTelemetry-2.0, to send Liberty audit logs to the OpenTelemetry collector. As a result, the audit logs may be managed with the same solutions with other Liberty log sources.

Micronaut

The Micronaut Foundation has released version 4.7.6 of the Micronaut Framework featuring Micronaut Core 4.7.14, bug fixes and a patch update to the Micronaut Oracle Cloud module. This version also provides an upgrade to Netty 4.1.118, a patch release that addresses CVE-2025-24970, a vulnerability in Netty versions 4.1.91.Final through 4.1.117.Final, where a specially crafted packet, received via an instance of the SslHandler class, doesn’t correctly handle validation of such a packet, in all cases, which can lead to a native crash. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Hibernate

The fourth beta release of Hibernate ORM 7.0.0 features: a migration to the Jakarta Persistence 3.2 specification, the latest version targeted for Jakarta EE 11; a baseline of JDK 17; improved domain model validations; and a migration from Hibernate Commons Annotations (HCANN) to the new Hibernate Models project for low-level processing of an application domain model. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes and the migration guide.

The release of Hibernate Reactive 2.4.5.Final features compatibility with Hibernate ORM 6.6.7.Final and provides resolutions to issues: a Hibernate ORM PropertyAccessException when creating a new object via the persist() method, defined in the Session interface, with an entity having bidirectional one-to-one relationships in Hibernate Reactive with Panache; and the doReactiveUpdate() method, defined in the ReactiveUpdateRowsCoordinatorOneToMany class, ignoring the return value of the deleteRows() method, defined in the same class. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Eclipse Vert.x

The fifth release candidate of Eclipse Vert.x 5.0 delivers notable changes such as: the removal of deprecated classes – ServiceAuthInterceptor and ProxyHelper – along with the two of the overloaded addInterceptor() methods defined in the ServiceBinder class; and support for the Java Platform Module System (JPMS). Further details on this release may be found in the release notes and deprecations and breaking changes.

Micrometer

The second milestone release of Micrometer Metrics 1.15.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: the removal of special handling of HTTP status codes 404, Not Found, and 301, Moved Permanently, from OkHttp client instrumentation; and a deprecation of the SignalFxMeterRegistry class (step meter) in favor of the OtlpMeterRegistry class (push meter). More details on these releases may be found in the release notes.

The second milestone release of Micrometer Tracing 1.5.0 provides dependency upgrades and features a deprecation of the ArrayListSpanProcessor class in favor of the Open Telemetry InMemorySpanExporter class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Piranha Cloud

The release of Piranha 25.2.0 delivers many dependency upgrades, improvements in documentation and notable changes such as: removal of the GlassFish 7.x and Tomcat 10.x compatibility extensions; and the ability to establish a file upload size in the FileUploadExtension, FileUploadMultiPart, FileUploadMultiPartInitializer and FileUploadMultiPartManager classes. More details on this release may be found in the release notes, documentation and issue tracker.

Project Reactor

Project Reactor 2024.0.3, the third maintenance release, providing dependency upgrades to reactor-core 3.7.3, reactor-netty 1.2.3, reactor-pool 1.1.2. There was also a realignment to version 2024.0.3 with the reactor-addons 3.5.2, reactor-kotlin-extensions 1.2.3 and reactor-kafka 1.3.23 artifacts that remain unchanged. Further details on this release may be found in the changelog.

Similarly, Project Reactor 2023.0.15, the fifteenth maintenance release, provides dependency upgrades to reactor-core 3.6.14, reactor-netty 1.1.27 and reactor-pool 1.0.10. There was also a realignment to version 2023.0.15 with the reactor-addons 3.5.2, reactor-kotlin-extensions 1.2.3 and reactor-kafka 1.3.23 artifacts that remain unchanged. More details on this release may be found in the changelog.

JHipster

The release of JHipster 8.9.0 features: dependency upgrades to Spring Boot 3.4.2, Node 22.13.1, Gradle 8.12.1, Angular 19.0.6 and Typescript 5.7.3; and support for plain time fields (Java LocalTime class) without it being tied to a date to the JHipster Domain Language (JDL). Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Gradle

The first release candidate of Gradle 8.13.0 introduces a new auto-provisioning utility that automatically downloads a JVM required by the Gradle Daemon. Other notable enhancements include: an explicit Scala version configuration for the Scala Plugin to automatically resolve required Scala toolchain dependencies; and refined millisecond precision in JUnit XML test event timestamps. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

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This week’s Java roundup for January 27th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Java Operator SDK 5.0; the January 2025 release of Open Liberty; an implementation of Model Context Protocol in Quarkus; the fourth milestone release of Vert.x 5.0; and point releases of JBang 0.123.0 and TornadoVM 1.0.10.

JDK 24

Build 34 of the JDK 24 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 33 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

JDK 25

Build 8 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 7 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 24 and JDK 25, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

TornadoVM

TornadoVM 1.0.10 features bug fixes, compatibility enhancements, and improvements: a new command-line option, -Dtornado.spirv.runtimes, to select individual (Level Zero and/or OpenCL) runtimes for dispatching and managing SPIR-V; and support for multiplication of matrices using the HalfFloat type. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Spring Framework

The first milestone release of Spring Cloud 2025.0.0, codenamed Northfields, features bug fixes and notable updates to sub-projects: Spring Cloud Kubernetes 3.3.0-M1; Spring Cloud Function 4.3.0-M1; Spring Cloud Stream 4.3.0-M1; and Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker 3.3.0-M1. This release is based upon Spring Boot 3.5.0-M1. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Open Liberty

IBM has released version 25.0.0.1 of Open Liberty featuring updated Open Liberty features – Batch API (batch-1.0), Jakarta Batch 2.0 (batch-2.0), Jakarta Batch 2.1 (batch-2.1), Java Connector Architecture Security Inflow 1.0 (jcaInboundSecurity-1.0), Jakarta Connectors Inbound Security 2.0 (connectorsInboundSecurity-2.0) – to support InstantOn; and a more simplified web module migration with the introduction of the webModuleClassPathLoader configuration attribute for the enterpriseApplication element that controls what class loader is used for the JARs that are referenced by a web module Class-Path attribute.

Quarkus

The release of Quarkus 3.18.0 provides bug fixes, dependency upgrades and notable changes such as: an integration of Micrometer to the WebSockets Next extension; support for a JWT bearer client authentication in the OpenID Connect and OpenID Connect Client extensions using client assertions loaded from the filesystem; and a new extension, OpenID Connect Redis Token State Manager to store an OIDC connect token state in a Redis cache datasource. Further details on this release may be found in the changelog.

The Quarkus team has also introduced their own implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) protocol featuring three servers so far: JDBC, Filesystem and JavaFX. These servers have been tested with Claude for Desktop, Model Context Protocol CLI and Goose clients. The team recommends using JBang to use these servers for ease of use, but isn’t required.

Apache Software Foundation

Maintaining alignment with Quarkus, the release of Camel Quarkus 3.18.0, composed of Camel 4.9.0 and Quarkus 3.18.0, provides resolutions to notable issues such as: the Kamelet extension unable to serialize objects from an instance of the ClasspathResolver, an inner class defined in the DefaultResourceResolvers, to bytecode; and the Debezium BOM adversely affects the unit tests from the Cassandra CQL extension driver since the release of Debezium 1.19.2.Final. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Infinispan

The release of Infinispan 15.1.5 features dependency upgrades and resolutions to issues such as: a NullPointerException due to a concurrent removal with the DELETE statement causing the cache::removeAsync statement to return null; and an instance of the HotRodUpgradeContainerSSLTest class crashes the test suite due to an instance of the PersistenceManagerImpl class failing to start. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Java Operator SDK

The release of Java Operator SDK 5.0.0 ships with continuous improvements on new features such as: the Kubernetes Server-Side Apply elevated to a first-class citizen with a default approach for patching the status resource; and a change in responsibility with the EventSource interface to monitor the resources and handles accessing the cached resources, filtering, and additional capabilities that was once maintained by the ResourceEventSource subinterface. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

JBang

JBang 0.123.0 provides bug fixes, improvements in documentation and new features: the options, such as add-open and exports, in a bundled MANIFEST.MF file are now honored; and the addition of Cursor, the AI code editor, in the list of supported IDEs. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Eclipse Vert.x

The fourth release candidate of Eclipse Vert.x 5.0 delivers notable changes such as: the removal of deprecated classes – ServiceAuthInterceptor and ProxyHelper – along with the two of the overloaded addInterceptor() methods defined in the ServiceBinder class; and support for the Java Platform Module System (JPMS). More details on this release may be found in the release notes and deprecations and breaking changes.

JHipster

Versions 1.26.0 and 1.25.0 of JHipster Lite (announced here and here, respectively) ship with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features/enhancements such as: new datasource modules for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL and MSSQL; and a restructured state ranking system for modules. Version 1.26.0 also represents the 100th release of JHipster Lite. Further details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 1.26.0 and version 1.25.0.