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Helidon 27 Introduces Restructured Programming Models and New Messaging and Data Modules
The release of Helidon 27 is the first release that follows the Oracle Tip & Tail Model of Library Development by which the Tip adopts the latest Java technology while the Tail provides a more stable and secure baseline. Concurrent with the release of JDK 27, new features in Helidon 27 include: an introduction to new major modules, Helidon Messaging and Helidon Data JDBC.
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Java News Roundup: Grails 8, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Infinispan, LangChain4j, Spock
This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the GA releases of Apache Grails 8.0 and Open Liberty 20.0.0.10; point releases of TornadoVM, Infinispan, LangChain4j and Spock; and a maintenance release of GlassFish.
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Java News Roundup: JobRunr 9, OpenXava 8, Quarkus, LangChain4j, JNoSQL, Introducing Lathe
This week's Java roundup for September 28th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JobRunr 9.0 and OpenXava 8.0; point releases for Quarkus, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Eclipse JNoSQL; ADK for Java and ADK for Kotlin; and introducing Lathe, a new Java language server.
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Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration
There was a flurry of activity during the week of September 21st, 2026, highlighting: second milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring AMQP, Spring Integration, Spring Data, Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL and Spring for Apache Kafka. There were also first milestone releases of Spring AI, Spring Cloud, Spring Web Services and Spring LDAP.
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Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 7.0, Groovy 6.0, GraalVM, Hibernate, Quarkus, Gradle, Maven
This week's Java roundup for September 21st, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of TornadoVM 7.0 and Groovy 6.0; point releases of GraalVM and Gradle; maintenance releases of Quarkus and GDK for Micronaut; the seventh release candidate of Maven 4.0; milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics and Tracing; and beta releases of Open Liberty and Hibernate ORM.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 27, Open J Proxy, A2A Jakarta, Azul Payara, BoxLang, Netflix ja
This week's Java roundup for September 14th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of JDK 27, LibericaJDK 27, Open J Proxy 1.0 and A2A Jakarta 1.0; point releases of Azul Payara, JHipster, JetBrains Ktor and BoxLang; and introducing Netflix ja, a modern JMS command line development experience for Java developers.
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Java 27 Delivers Post-Quantum Cryptography, Future Language Innovation, Helidon 27, JavaFX 27
Oracle has released version 27 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, the final feature set includes nine JEPs, five of which are still progressing through the preview and incubator stages. This release focuses on strengthening security, future language innovation, and projects under the auspices of the Java Verified Portfolio.
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Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, CDI 5.0, Spring, Open Liberty, RefactorFirst, ADK for Kotlin
This week's Java roundup for September 7th, 2026, features news highlighting: new JEPs for ahead-of-time compilation and structured concurrency; GA releases of Jakarta CDI 5.0 and ADK for Kotlin 1.0; the September 2026 edition of Open Liberty; point releases of TornadoVM and RefactorFirst; a maintenance release of Micronaut; and first releases candidates of Groovy 6.0 and Gradle 9.8.
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Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 6, JReleaser, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK, JHipster, Yupiik Fusion
This week's Java roundup for August 31st, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 6.0; point releases of JReleaser, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK, JHipster, Kotlin Toolchain and Yupiik Fusion; and maintenance releases of Micronaut and GraalVM Development Kit.
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Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Jakarta Data, JNoSQL, Azul Payara, WildFly, Quarkus, Atmosphere
This week's Java roundup for August 24th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of Atmosphere 4.0; point releases of GraalVM, Azul Payara and Quarkus; a maintenance release of WildFly 41; milestone releases of Jakarta Data and Eclipse JNoSQL; a beta release of the September 2026 edition of Open Liberty; and the release of Docker images for GlassFish 8.0.4.
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FlexGanttFX is Open Source
Dirk Lemmerman has released FlexGanttFX as an open-source resource-scheduling framework under the AGPL license. This JavaFX library enables Gantt chart creation for various industries, optimizing performance with a Canvas rendering method. The framework includes features for task dependency modeling and direct editing, accommodating diverse project planning needs.
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Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases for Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Modulith, Batch
After a 10-week hiatus since the last batch of Spring ecosystem releases, there was a flurry of activity during the week of August 17th, 2026, highlighting first milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring HATEOAS, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Kafka.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 27-RC1, OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, BellSoft, Helidon, Micrometer, Tika 4.0
This week's Java roundup for August 17th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 27; JEP 541 and JEP 540 targeted for JDK 28; the GA release of Apache Tika 4.0; a maintenance release of Helidon; the first milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics 1.18 and Micrometer Tracing 1.8; an update on Jakarta EE 12; and BellSoft Critical Security Patch Updates.
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JDK 27 and JDK 28: What We Know So Far
JDK 27, the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its first release candidate phase featuring a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into four categories: Core Java Library, HotSpot, Security Library and Java Language Specification. We examine JDK 27 and predict what features have, or could be, targeted for JDK 28.
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JEP 540 Proposed to Target JDK 28 with a Simple JSON API
JEP 540, Simple JSON API, has progressed to Target status for JDK 28. It introduces a compact API for parsing and generating JSON documents without external dependencies. Focused on core tasks, it provides an immutable value hierarchy. The API allows simple traversal and conversion while enforcing strict syntax rules. Feedback during incubation will shape its future development.