This week’s Java roundup for June 16th, 2025, features news highlighting: point releases of MicroProfile 7.1, Apache TomEE 10.1 and LangChain4j 1.1; the June edition of Open Liberty; the second beta release of JobRunr 8.0; and Apple’s new SwiftJava utility.
JDK 25
Build 28 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 27 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
JDK 26
Build 3 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 2 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Jakarta EE 11
In his weekly Hashtag Jakarta EE blog, Ivar Grimstad, Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation, provided an update on Jakarta EE 11, writing:
Some of you may have noticed that the ballot for the Jakarta EE 11 Platform specification concluded this [past] week. And the even more observant may have noticed that the various artefacts are available on the website and in Maven Central.
There will be an official launch with press releases, analyst briefings, and celebrations to mark the release as officially released the upcoming week.
InfoQ will follow up with a more detailed news story.
Spring Framework
It was a busy week over at Spring as the various teams have delivered point releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka, Spring for Apache Pulsar, Spring Web Services and Spring Vault. More details may be found in this InfoQ news story.
Release trains for numerous Spring projects will also reach the end of OSS support on June 30, 2025.
MicroProfile
The MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile featuring updates to the MicroProfile Telemetry and MicroProfile Open API specifications.
New features in MicroProfile Telemetry 2.1 include: a dependency upgrade to Awaitility 4.2.2 to allow for running the TCK on JDK 23; and improved metrics from ThreadCountHandler class to ensure consistent text descriptions.
New features in MicroProfile Open API 4.1 include: the addition of a jsonSchemaDialect() method, defined in the OpenAPI interface, to render the jsonSchemaDialect field; and a minor improvements to the Extensible interface that adds the @since tag in the JavaDoc.
Open Liberty
The release of Open Liberty 25.0.0.6 features backporting compatibility of Microprofile Health 4.0 specification (mpHealth-4.0 feature) to the Java EE 7 and Java EE 8 applications; and the file-based health check mechanism as an alternative to the traditional /health endpoints, introduced in Open Liberty 25.0.0.4-beta, has been updated to include a new server.xml attribute, startupCheckInterval, and a corresponding environment variable, MP_HEALTH_STARTUP_CHECK_INTERVAL, that defaults to 100 ms if no configuration has been provided.
JobRunr
The second beta release of JobRunr 8.0.0 introduces Carbon Aware Job Processing, a new feature that optimizes the carbon footprint, that is, the lowest amount of CO2 being generated, when scheduling jobs. Other new features include: support for Kotlin serialization with a new KotlinxSerializationJsonMapper class, an implementation of the JsonMapper interface, for an enhanced experience when writing JobRunr applications in Kotlin; and improved synchronization with the @Recurring annotation. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
LangChain4j
The formal release (along with the first release candidate and seventh beta release) of LangChain4j 1.1.0 delivers modules: langchain4j-core; langchain4j; langchain4j-http-client; langchain4j-http-client-jdk and langchain4j-open-ai with the the remaining modules under the seventh beta release. For the first release candidate, new modules: langchain4j-anthropic; langchain4j-azure-open-ai; langchain4j-bedrock; langchain4j-google-ai-gemini; langchain4j-mistral-ai; and langchain4j-ollama are now available for developers to use in their applications. Version 1.2 of these new modules will be delivered in July. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Apple
At the recent Apple WWDC25 conference, SwiftJava, a new experimental utility providing interoperability between Java and Swift, was introduced to conference attendees. SwiftJava consists of: the Swift Package, a JavaKit containing Swift libraries and macros; a Java Library, a SwiftKit containing a Java library for Swift interoperability; and tools that include the swift-java command line utility and support for the Swift Package Manager and Gradle build tools.
Apache Software Foundation
The release of Apache TomEE 10.1.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and alignment with MicroProfile 6.1 along with specifications MicroProfile Config 3.1, MicroProfile Metrics 5.1 and MicroProfile Telemetry 1.1. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
The release of Apache Log4j 2.25.0 ships with bug fixes and notable changes such as: support for embedded GraalVM reachability metadata in all Log4j extensions for seamless generation of native images; a refactor of the Pattern Layout API that resolves bugs and ensures consistent behavior across all exception converters; and an updated JMS Appender utility now supports the Jakarta Messaging specification. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Gradle
The first release candidate of Gradle 9.0.0 provides bug fixes and new features such as: a minimal JDK 17 version; the configuration cache is now enabled by default as it has been declared as the preferred mode of execution for developers; and support for Kotlin 2.1 and Groovy 4.0. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
