Java News Roundup: Lazy Constants, TornadoVM 3.0, NetBeans 29, Quarkus, JReleaser, Open Liberty
InfoQ, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
This week's Java roundup for February 23rd, 2026, features news highlighting: new JEP 531 Candidate, Lazy Constants; GA releases of TornadoVM 3.0 and NetBeans 29; point releases of Quarkus, JReleaser, Chicory and RefactorFirst; maintenance releases of Micronaut and Jox; and the February 2026 edition of Open Liberty.
OpenJDK
JEP 531, Lazy Constants (Third Preview), has been elevated from its JEP Draft 8329758 to Candidate status. Formerly known as StableValues, this feature proposes a third preview, with two changes, after two rounds of preview delivered in the upcoming release of JDK 26 and JDK 25. The changes include: removal of the methods, isInitialized() and orElse(), from the LazyConstant interface, as they do not align with the design goals of this feature; and a new factory method, ofLazy(), that can create a stable, pre-defined elements for all three Java collection types, namely: List, Set and Map.