Java News Roundup: JDK 25, GraalVM for JDK 25, OpenJDK JEPs, LangChain4j, JBang, Gradle
InfoQ, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
This week's Java roundup for September 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 25 and GraalVM for JDK 25; new JEP candidates and JEPs targeted for JDK 26; point releases of Quarkus, the A2A Java SDK, Apache TomEE, LangChain4j and Gradle; the second alpha release of Hibernate Validator 9.1; and Oracle detaching GraalVM from the Java release train.
OpenJDK
JEP 522, G1 GC: Improve Throughput by Reducing Synchronization, has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 26. This JEP proposes to reduce the overhead of the G1 garbage collector to improve synchronization between application threads and GC threads.