Java News Roundup: Spring Tools, Helidon, Open Liberty, TomEE, JobRunr, Hibernate, Commonhaus
InfoQ, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
Java ecosystem roundup covers releases with security fixes, new spec support, and improved tooling.
Multiple Java projects shipped updates in this roundup.
Spring Tools 5.2.0 adds an experimental Claude Code plugin and type-safe property references, while Helidon 4.5.0 hardens config encryption.
Open Liberty 26.0.0.6 and Quarkus issued patches addressing CVEs including parameter smuggling.
Apache TomEE 11.0.0-M1 delivers Jakarta EE 11 and MicroProfile 7.1 support, and Hibernate ORM 8.0.0-Beta1 adds graph-based flush coordination and row-level security.
the Commonhaus Foundation welcomed OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and SQLDelight, and Gradle 9.6.0 improved configuration caching.