This week’s Java roundup for November 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: an update on Jakarta EE 12; patch set updates for Liberica JDK; the December 2025 beta release of Open Liberty; and maintenance releases of Quarkus, JobRunr, OpenXava, JDKUpdater and Gradle.
JDK 26
Build 25 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 24 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
For JDK 26, 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 12, writing:
The Jakarta EE Platform project is still aiming for December 9 for completion of Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 12. The work is still going according to plan, so a release of Jakarta EE 12 before summer next year looks promising. The Jakarta Agentic Artificial Intelligence specification project has been provisioned, so it should be all set up to get started. There has been a lot of positive feedback from the community regarding this specification, so I am very excited and looking forward to how it will turn out.
As per the Jakarta EE 12 release plan, there will be four milestone releases before the GA release in July 2026.
BellSoft
BellSoft has re-released versions 25.0.1, 21.0.9, 17.0.17, 11.0.29 and 8u472 of Liberica JDK, their downstream distribution of OpenJDK, to include patches for four CVEs, namely CVE-2025-7424, CVE-2025-7425, CVE-2025-6021 and CVE-2025-10911, found in the OpenJFX libxslt and libxml modules.
Spring Framework
It was a busy week over at Spring as the various teams have delivered GA releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch and Spring Vault. Further details may be found in this InfoQ news story.
Open Liberty
The beta release of Open Liberty 25.0.0.12 features: support for Spring Boot 4.0 with a new springBoot-4.0 feature; an early preview of the upcoming release of Jakarta Data 1.1, currently at M1, supporting Jakarta EE 12; updates to their mcpServer-1.0 feature that includes session management and easier discovery of the MCP endpoint; and updates to their Netty‑based HTTP transport that includes improvements with large uploads or downloads, chunked transfers, compression-enabled content and keep-alive behavior.
Quarkus
RedHat has released versions 3.29.4, 3.27.1 and 3.20.4 of Quarkus (announced here, here and here, respectively) that provide bug fixes, dependency upgrades and primarily address CVE-2025-59250, a vulnerability that allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network via improper input validation within the JDBC driver for SQL Server. More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 3.29.4, version 3.27.1 and version 3.20.4.
JobRunr
The release of JobRunr 8.2.4 provides continued improvements from the first three patch releases due to the issues that were discovered with the release of JobRunr 8.2. These included: a regression that caused JobRunr to not find inherited job methods; and a critical issue that prevented the UI elements from the Dashboard being included in a JAR file. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
OpenXava
The release of OpenXava 7.6.2 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and improvements such as: the ModuleTestBase class now supports JUnit4-style tests while still maintaining support for JUnit 3-style tests; and the has-type, has-annotation and has-stereotype options in the editors.xml file now exclude hidden properties. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
JDKUpdater
Version 26.0.9+185 of JDKUpdater, a utility that provides developers the ability to keep track of updates related to builds of OpenJDK and GraalVM has been made available this past week. Introduced in mid-March 2024 by Gerrit Grunwald, principal engineer at Azul, this release ships with a modified widget background color. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Gradle
Gradle 9.2.1, the first maintenance release, provides notable changes such as: support for Windows ARM; an improved Publishing API that offers new ways to define and publish custom software components; and enhancements to reporting of errors and warnings that include improved suggestions and guidance upon failure of dependency verification. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
