Java News Roundup: JDK 26-RC1, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, EclipseStore, Gradle
InfoQ, Monday, February 16th, 2026
This week's Java roundup for February 9th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 26 and Gradle 9.4; milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; beta releases of Open Liberty 26.0.0.2 and EclipseStore 4.0; and maintenance releases of Spring Framework, Micronaut, and Quarkus.
JDK 27
Build 9 of the JDK 27 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 8 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
JDK 26
Build 35 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 34 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.