Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Spring RCs, Jakarta EE, Payara Platform, WildFly, Testcontainers
InfoQ, Monday, October 20th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for October 13th, 2025, features news highlighting: two new OpenJDK candidates; Jakarta EE 12 specifications with milestone 1 releases; the October 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; the GA releases of WildFly 38 and Testcontainers 2.0; and the first release candidates of Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Data 2025.1.0.
OpenJDK
JEP 529, Vector API (Eleventh Incubator), has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8328351 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes an eleventh incubation, with no substantial implementation changes since JDK 25, after ten rounds of incubation delivered in JDK 16 through JDK 25.