Java News Roundup: Spring Tools 5, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Hibernate ORM, Spock Framework
InfoQ, Monday, December 15th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for December 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Spring Tools 5.0; milestone releases of Spring AI and Spring Shell; the December 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Hibernate ORM and Spock Framework; and maintenance releases of Spring Framework, Micronaut, Apache TomEE and Apache Tomcat.
JDK 26
Build 28 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 27 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.