This week’s Java roundup for November 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 26; the GA release of Spring Framework 7.0; point releases of Spring Data, Spring AI, JobRunr and Jox; the November 2025 edition of Payara Platform; the fifth release candidate of Maven 4.0; and a maintenance release of Micronaut.
OpenJDK
JEP 525, Structured Concurrency (Sixth Preview), has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 26. This JEP proposes a sixth preview after five rounds of previous preview delivered in JDK 19 through JDK 25. This feature simplifies concurrent programming by introducing the concept of structured concurrency to “treat groups of related tasks running in different threads as a single unit of work, thereby streamlining error handling and cancellation, improving reliability, and enhancing observability.” The only significant change is the addition of a onTimeout() method to the StructuredTaskScope.Joiner interface, that allows for implementations of that interface to return a result after the timeout expires.
JEP 524, PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Second Preview), has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 26. This JEP proposes a second round of preview, with changes, after the first round of preview, namely JEP 470, PEM Encoding of Cryptographic Objects (Preview), delivered in JDK 25. Changes include: a rename of the PEMRecord class to PEM; and an enhancement of the PEMEncoder and PEMDecoder classes to support the encryption and decryption of the KeyPair and PKCS8EncodedKeySpec classes. InfoQ will follow up with a more detailed news story.
JEP 530, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Fourth Preview), has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 26. This JEP proposes a fourth preview, with two changes, after three rounds of preview delivered in JDK 25 through JDK 23. The changes are: enhance the definition of unconditional exactness; and the application of tighter dominance checks in switch constructs.
JEP 526, Lazy Constants (Second Preview), has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 26. Formerly known as Stable Values and Computed Constants, this JEP proposes a second preview, with changes, after the first round of preview, namely: JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview), for JDK 26. This feature introduces the concept of computed constants, defined as immutable value holders that are initialized at most once. This offers the performance and safety benefits of final fields, while offering greater flexibility as to the timing of initialization. Revisions for this JEP include: the name change from Stable Values to Lazy Constants as the new name better captures the intent of a high-level use case; and enhanced discoverability. InfoQ will follow up with a more detailed news story.
JDK 26
Build 24 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 23 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.
Spring Framework
After nine milestones and three release candidates dating back to January 2025, the long-awaited GA release of Spring Framework 7.0.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: programmatic bean registration mechanism when more logic is necessary and when multiple bean registration is required; and dedicated support for HTTP interface client configuration for a simplified configuration registration process. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page. InfoQ will follow up with a more detailed news story.
The GA release of Spring Data 2025.1.0 features: the use of Ahead-of-Time Repositories that enable faster startup times and reduced memory consumption for applications using Spring Data JPA, MongoDB, JDBC, and Cassandra; and vector search methods that enable Vector Search through Spring Data JPA, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Both Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Data 2025.1.0 both offer: compatibility with Jakarta EE 11 and Jackson 3.0; and full null safety with annotations from JSpecify.
The GA release of Spring AI 1.1.0 provides bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: full integration with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and auto-configuration with Spring Boot; prompt caching support for Anthropic Claude and AWS Bedrock that yields decreased costs and improved response times; and numerous advanced AI capabilities. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Payara
Payara has released their November 2025 edition of the Payara Platform features the GA release of Payara 7.2025.1 that is fully certified with Jakarta EE 11. Along with bug fixes and component upgrades, this edition completes the removal of the legacy Payara InSight monitoring console for more streamlined and modern observability implementations.
This edition also includes Community Edition 6.2025.11, Enterprise Edition 6.32.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.81.0. Along with bug fixes and component upgrades, one new feature in all three editions is the addition of a new --no-validation command-line parameter that allows developers to specify property values for max-pool-size and steady-pool-size.
More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for Community Edition 7.2025.1, Community Edition 6.2025.11, Enterprise Edition 6.32.0 and Enterprise Edition 5.81.0.
JobRunr
The release of JobRunr 8.2.0 delivers bug fixes and new features such as: a new useMetrics() method, added to the JobRunrConfiguration class, that replaces the now-deprecated useMicroMeter() method; security improvements to the JobRunr Dashboard that adds Content Security Policy headers, disables browser caching for the /api endpoint and prevention of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing requests; and improvements to the MethodFinderPredicate class to support bridge methods in Kotlin 2.2.20.
It was necessary to release patch versions 8.2.3, 8.2.2 and 8.2.1 to resolve: 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.
More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 8.2.3, version 8.2.2, version 8.2.1 and version 8.2.0.
Micronaut
The Micronaut Foundation has released version 4.10.2 of the Micronaut Framework, based on Micronaut Core 4.10.8, features bug fixes and patch updates to modules: Micronaut MCP, Micronaut Data, Micronaut Maven Plugin, Micronaut Serialization, Micronaut Flyway and Micronaut RSS. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Maven
The fifth release candidate of Maven 4.0.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new method, includesAll(), added to the PathMatcherFactory interface, that unconditionally returns true tied to an instance of the Java PathMatcher interface for all files; and a new method, skipMavenRc(), added to the ExecutorRequest interface, to isolate integration tests from the executing system. The team stated that this is the last release candidate before the GA release. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Jox
The release of Jox 1.1.0-channels, a virtual threads library that implements an efficient Channel data structure in Java designed to be used with virtual threads, features many dependency upgrades and notable changes such as: an optimization of memory to support structured concurrency; and new methods, fromInputStream() and fromFile(), added to the Flows class to specify a default chunk size. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
