Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Spring AI, JobRunr, GlassFish, Grails, Groovy, Quarkus Agent MCP
InfoQ, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Weekly Java roundup covering JDK 27 JEPs, Spring AI 2.0, GraalVM accelerated releases, and updates across Grails, Groovy, Quarkus, and other frameworks.
This InfoQ Java News Roundup for May 11, 2026, covers multiple significant releases and updates across the Java ecosystem. Notable highlights include JEP 533 (Structured Concurrency) and JEP 531 (Lazy Constants) being targeted for JDK 27, the sixth milestone of Spring AI 2.0 with new ChatModel methods, and JobRunr 8.6.0 achieving JDK 26 compatibility.
The GraalVM team introduced an accelerated release train with monthly feature releases to keep pace with AI-driven development, while Quarkus released emergency patches for CVE-2026-39852 and introduced their new Agent MCP server for AI integration. Additional releases include Apache Grails 8.0.0 and Groovy 6.0.0 alpha, along with maintenance updates for GlassFish, TomEE, and Tomcat.