Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Apache Kafka, Grails, Micronaut
InfoQ, Monday, September 8th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for September 1st, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 517 proposed to target for JDK 26; TornadoVM releases GPULlama3.java 0.2.0; the September 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Quarkus, Micronaut, Apache Kafka and Apache Tomcat; and second release candidates of Grails 7.0 and Gradle 9.1.
OpenJDK
JEP 517, HTTP/3 for the HTTP Client API, has been elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 26. This JEP proposes to "update the HTTPClient API to support the HTTP/3 protocol, so that libraries and applications can interact with HTTP/3 servers with minimal code change." The review is expected to conclude on September 10, 2025.