Java News Roundup: JDK 26 in Rampdown, JDK 27 Expert Group, GlassFish, TornadoVM, Spring gRPC
InfoQ, December 8,2025
This week's Java roundup for December 1st, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 26 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 27 Expert Group; GA releases of TornadoVM 2.0 and Spring gRPC 1.0; a point release of GlassFish 7.1; the December 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the first beta release of JHipster 9.0 and the second release candidate of Hibernate Search 8.2.
JDK 26
Build 27 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 26 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.