Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 12, Spring Shell, Open Liberty, Quarkus, Tomcat, JHipster, Gradle
infoQ, Sunday, February 1st, 2026
This week's Java roundup for January 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: an update on milestone and GA release schedule for Jakarta EE 12; the January 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release of Quarkus; maintenance releases of Spring Shell, Apache Tomcat and Gradle; and the first and second beta releases of JHipster 9.0.
JDK 26
Build 33 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 32 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
JDK 27
Build 7 of the JDK 27 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 6 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.