Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in RDP2, Spring Framework, Payara Platform, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
InfoQ, Monday, July 21st, 2025
This week's Java roundup for July 14th, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 25 in rampdown phase 2; the seventh milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the July 2025 editions of the Payara Platform, Open Liberty and Oracle Critical Patch Update; and Eclipse DataGrid is open-sourced.
OpenJDK
After its review had concluded, JEP 504, Remove the Applet API, was elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 26. This JEP proposes to remove the Applet API, deprecated in JDK 17, due its continued obsolescence since applets are no longer supported in web browsers.
Oracle has released versions 24.0.2, 21.0.8, 17.0.16, 11.0.28, and 8u462 of the JDK as part of the quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory for July 2025. More details on this release may be found in the release notes for version 24.0.2, version 21.0.8, version 17.0.16, version 11.0.28 and version 8u461.