Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, GlassFish, Spring AI, JReleaser, A2A Java SDK, Google ADK, Gradle
InfoQ, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Weekly Java news covering OpenJDK JEP advancements, Spring AI 2.0 milestone, GlassFish 9.0, and releases from Quarkus, JReleaser, Gradle, and A2A Java SDK.
This Java News Roundup from May 4, 2026 highlights major developments across the Java ecosystem. OpenJDK announced three JEPs targeted for JDK 27, including the fifth preview of Primitive Types in Patterns and the seventh preview of Structured Concurrency, along with enhancements to JFR In-Process Data Redaction.
Spring AI 2.0's fifth milestone release introduces custom StructuredOutputConverter implementations and new tool call advisor methods, while Eclipse GlassFish 9.0.0's second milestone adds support for JDK 25 and new Jakarta specification implementations.
Notable releases also include Gradle 9.5.0 with improved task diagnostics, Quarkus 3.35.0 featuring an experimental dependency tree shaker, and the first beta of Agent2Agent Java SDK 1.0.0 with support for multiple transport protocols.