Java News Roundup: WildFly 36, Spring Milestones, Betas for Open Liberty, Hibernate, LangChain4j
InfoQ, Monday, April 14th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for April 7th, 2025, features news highlighting: milestone releases of Spring AI 1.0 and Spring Cloud 2025; beta releases of Open Liberty 2025.0.0, Hibernate Reactive 3.0 and LangChain4j 1.0; and the sixth release candidate of Vert.x 5.0.
JDK 25
Build 18 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 17 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: