Java News Roundup: JDK 25-RC1, Spring AI, WildFly 37, Payara Platform, LangChain4j, Grails
InfoQ, Monday, August 11th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for August 4th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 25 and Grails 7.0; the release of WildFly 37; the August edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of LangChain4j, JBang and Hibernate projects; and maintenance releases of Spring AI, JobRunr and Apache Tomcat.
JDK 25
Build 35 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 34 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
As per the JDK 25 release schedule, Mark Reinhold, chief architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, formally declared that JDK 25 has entered its first release candidate as there are no unresolved P1 bugs in Build 35. The anticipated GA release is scheduled for September 16, 2025, and will include a final set of 18 features.