This week’s Java roundup for February 17th, 2025 features news highlighting: the release of Apache NetBeans 25; the February 2025 release of the Payara Platform; the second beta release of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the second release candidate of Gradle 8.13.
JDK 24
Build 36 remains the current build in the JDK 24 early-access builds. Further details may be found in the release notes.
JDK 25
Build 11 of the JDK 25 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 10 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
For JDK 24 and JDK 25, 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 milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring AI and Spring AMQP. There were also point releases of Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL,Spring Session, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Further details may be found in this InfoQ news story.
Payara
Payara has released their February 2025 edition of the Payara Platform that includes Community Edition 6.2025.2, Enterprise Edition 6.23.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.72.0. All three releases provide critical bug fixes, component upgrades and a new feature that ensures Docker images shutdown gracefully to allow applications to cleanly terminate without data loss or corruption.
A notable critical issue was an IllegalStateException due to Spring Boot 3 applications failing to deploy to Payara Server 6. This was resolved by ensuring proper initialization of Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) during deployment. More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for Community Edition 6.2025.2 and Enterprise Edition 6.23.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.72.0.
Apache Software Foundation
The release of Apache NetBeans 25 delivers many improvements that include: enhancements in support for Java code completion for sealed types in switch statements; improved behaviour with the CloneableEditorSupport class such that it will no longer break additional instances of the Java DocumentFilter class which may be attached to an instance of the Java AbstractDocument class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
The release of Apache Tomcat 9.0.100 provides a resolution to a regression with the release of Tomcat 9.0.99 that caused an error while starting Tomcat on JDK 17. The regression was a mitigation for CVE-2024-56337, a Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use vulnerability in which a write-enabled default servlet for a case insensitive file system can bypass Tomcat’s case sensitivity checks and cause an uploaded file to be treated as a JSP leading to a remote code execution. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Hibernate
The second beta release of Hibernate Reactive 3.0.0 ships with resolutions to notable issue such as: a ClassCastException from an instance of the ReactiveEmbeddableForeignKeyResultImpl class due to use of the Hibernate ORM EmbeddableInitializerImpl class instead of its reactive version, namely the ReactiveEmbeddableInitializerImpl class; and a NullPointerException when retrieving an entity using a Jakarta Persistence @ManyToOne composite table with additional properties in the Jakarta Persistence @IdClass annotation. This release is compatible with Hibernate ORM 7.0.0.Beta4, and an upgrade to Vert.x SQL client 4.5.13. Further details on this release may be found in the changelog.
JobRunr
The release of JobRunr 7.4.1 ships with bug fixes and new features such as: the ability to switch between different date styles in job table views, e.g., the timestamp when an instance of the Job class was enqueued; and an enhanced display for more complex job parameters on the job details page. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Gradle
The second release candidate of Gradle 8.13.0 introduces a new auto-provisioning utility that automatically downloads a JVM required by the Gradle Daemon. Other notable enhancements include: an explicit Scala version configuration for the Scala Plugin to automatically resolve required Scala toolchain dependencies; and refined millisecond precision in JUnit XML test event timestamps. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
