Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 26, Spring RCs, Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, Gradle
InfoQ, Monday, November 3rd, 2025
This week's Java roundup for October 27th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs proposed to target for JDK 26; release candidates of Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Data; point releases of Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J and Gradle; and an update from Jakarta EE 12.
OpenJDK
JEP 525, Structured Concurrency (Sixth Preview), has been elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 26. This JEP proposes a sixth preview after five rounds of previous preview delivered in JDK 19 through JDK 25. This feature simplifies concurrent programming by introducing the concept of structured concurrency to "treat groups of related tasks running in different threads as a single unit of work, thereby streamlining error handling and cancellation, improving reliability, and enhancing observability."