Java News Roundup: JHipster 9.0, Project Valhalla, Spring, Helidon, OpenXava, Java Operator SDK
InfoQ, Monday, March 16th, 2026
This week's Java roundup for March 9th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of JHipster 9.0; Build 27-jep401ea of Project Valhalla; point releases of Spring Tools, Helidon, OpenXava and Java Operator SDK; a maintenance release of Spring Framework; the beta release of the March 2026 edition of Open Liberty; and milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing.
JDK 26
Build 35 remains the current build in the JDK 26 early-access builds. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
JDK 27
Build 13 of the JDK 27 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 12 that include fixes for various issues. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.