Java News Roundup: New Jakarta AI Specification, GlassFish, Spring RCs, Infinispan 16, Open Liberty
InfoQ, Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for November 3rd, 2025, features news highlighting: a new Jakarta AI specification; the fourteenth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; second release candidates of Spring Boot 4.0, Spring for GraphQL 2.0 and Spring Batch 6.0; the release of Infinispan 16.0; and the November 2025 edition of Open Liberty.
OpenJDK
It was a busy week in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of November 3rd, 2025 highlighting three JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and three JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 26. Further details may be found in this InfoQ news story.
After hearing no objections during the review, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, has declared that the proposed schedule for JDK 26 is now final: