This week’s Java roundup for March 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of JDK 26; LibericaJDK 26; the March 2026 edition of the Payara Platform; the first milestone release of GlassFish 9.0; a point release of Micronaut; and introducing ClawRunr, a new Java-based personal AI assistant created by JobRunr.
JDK 26
Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine, which ships with a final feature set of 10 JEPs. Further details may be found in this InfoQ news story.
JDK 27
Build 14 of the JDK 27 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 13 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
For JDK 26 and JDK 27, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.
Spring Framework
It was a busy week over at Spring as the various teams have delivered the third milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Integration; Spring AI; and Spring AMQP; along with the second milestone releases of Spring Data and Spring for Apache Kafka. More details may be found in this InfoQ news story.
BellSoft
BellSoft has released their downstream distribution of OpenJDK, Liberica JDK 26. Of the overall 2,825 fixes (2,665 in OpenJDK and 160 in JavaFX), BellSoft had contributed nine fixes to this release. Developers may download this latest version from this website.
GlassFish
The first milestone release of GlassFish 9.0.0 delivers full milestone 1 implementations of Jakarta Security 5.0, Jakarta Faces 5.0, and Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 5.0. This releases also includes partial milestone 1 implementations of Jakarta Servlet 6.2 and
Jakarta Concurrency 3.2. GlassFish 9.0.0 targets Jakarta EE 12. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Payara
Payara has released their March 2026 edition of the Payara Platform that includes Community Edition 7.2026.3, Enterprise Edition 6.36.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.85.0. Along with bug fixes and component upgrades, all three editions ship with resolutions to numerous memory leaks that include the PayloadFilesManager, InputJarArchive and LogFileHandle classes.
Modernization of the platform continues with this release as support for legacy deployment descriptor formats and the built-in JVM profiler configuration have been deprecated. And over 27 deprecated command parameters have been removed. These include: restore-domain, create-cluster and delete-cluster.
More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for Community Edition 7.2026.3, Enterprise Edition 6.36.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.85.0.
Micronaut
The Micronaut Foundation has released version 4.10.10 of the Micronaut Framework, based on Micronaut Core 4.10.18, features bug fixes, a patch update to the Micronaut Test module and resolutions to two denial-of-service attacks.
The first vulnerability was related to the expandArrayToThreshold(), defined in the JsonBeanPropertyBinder class, not correctly handling a descending array index order during form body binding with application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
The second vulnerability was related to the DefaultHtmlErrorResponseBodyProvider class using an instance of the Java ConcurrentHashMap class with no eviction policy.
Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
JobRunr
The team at JobRunr has introduced a Java-based personal AI assistant, ClawRunr, a runtime built on JDK 25, Spring Boot 4, Spring AI and JobRunr. ClawRunr runs on a user’s local hardware and performs such tasks as: communicate through a web interface; schedule tasks, browse the web; and read email. Inspiration came from OpenClaw, a personal AI assistant implemented in Node.js. InfoQ will follow up with a more detailed news story.
