Java News Roundup: Stable Values, Spring Modulith, Open Liberty, Quarkus, JReleaser, Gradle
InfoQ, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
This week's Java roundup for February 24th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview), Proposed to Target for JDK 25; milestone and point releases for Spring Modulith; the February 2025 release of Open Liberty; and the releases of Quarkus 3.19.0, JReleaser 1.17.0 and Gradle 8.13.0.
OpenJDK
JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview), has been elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 25. Formerly known as Computed Constants (Preview), this JEP 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. The review is expected to conclude on March 7, 2025.