JDK 25 and JDK 26: What We Know So Far
InfoQ, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
JDK 25, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release since JDK 21, has reached its second release candidate as declared by Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle.
The main-line source repository, forked to the JDK stabilization repository in early-June 2025 (Rampdown Phase One), defines the feature set for JDK 25. Critical bugs, such as regressions or serious functionality issues, may be addressed, but must be approved via the Fix-Request process. As per the release schedule, JDK 25 will be formally released on September 16, 2025.