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Java News Roundup: JDK 25, GraalVM for JDK 25, OpenJDK JEPs, LangChain4j, JBang, Gradle

Michael Redlich — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:30:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for September 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 25 and GraalVM for JDK 25; new JEP candidates and JEPs targeted for JDK 26; point releases of Quarkus, the A2A Java SDK, Apache TomEE, LangChain4j and Gradle; the second alpha release of Hibernate Validator 9.1; and Oracle detaching GraalVM from the Java release train.

By Michael Redlich

Java 25, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Finalized Features and Focus on Performance and Runtime

Michael Redlich — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:30:00 GMT

Oracle has released version 25 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 18 JEPs, seven of which are finalized having evolved through the incubation and preview processes. Nine of these features are focused on performance and runtime.

By Michael Redlich

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, TornadoVM, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, JBang

Michael Redlich — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:30:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for September 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 26 and new candidates; first integration of GPULlama3.java with LangChain4j; milestone releases of Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring AI; Spring Authorization Server moving to Spring Security; the September 2025 edition of Open Liberty; and a point release of JBang.

By Michael Redlich