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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