This week’s Java roundup for March 23rd, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools 1.0 and EclipseLink 5.0; the March 2026 edition of Open Liberty; fourth milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Modulith and Spring AI; a point release of Quarkus; the first development release of Infinispan; and a maintenance release of GlassFish.<\/p>\n
JDK 27<\/p>\n
Build 15<\/a> of the JDK 27 early-access builds<\/a> was made available this past week featuring updates<\/a> from Build 14 that include fixes for various issues<\/a>. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n For JDK 27<\/a>, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n GraalVM Native Build Tools<\/p>\n The GA release of GraalVM Native Build Tools<\/a> 1.0.0 delivers dependency upgrades and a resolution to an issue due to a failure of the Gradle version of the JavaApplicationFunctionalTest<\/a> class on the latest GraalVM JDKs due to using a removed feature that blocked test gates. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n GlassFish<\/p>\n GlassFish 8.0.1, the first maintenance release, ships with bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a move of the Java Native Access (JNA) library to a dedicated module; optimizations in deployment performance and use of resources; and a refactor of various utilities (MarshallingUtils<\/a>, JdbcPoolPerformanceIT<\/a>, among others) to make them usable outside of GlassFish. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Framework<\/p>\n The fourth milestone release<\/a> of Spring Boot<\/a> 4.1.0 provides bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: consistency with the GrpcServerObservationAutoConfiguration<\/a> and GrpcClientObservationAutoConfiguration<\/a> classes by supporting a custom Micrometer Metrics GrpcClientObservationConvention<\/a> interface and adding the @ConditionalOnMissingBean<\/a> annotation to the ObservationGrpcServerInterceptor<\/a> class. This release also reverts changes made to RabbitMQ and AMQP in Spring Boot 4.1.1-M3 that will now be delivered in November 2026 with the upcoming release of Spring Boot 4.2. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The fourth milestone release<\/a> of Spring Modulith<\/a> 2.1.0 delivers notable changes such as: a new JobRunrEventExternalizer<\/a> class to support for event externalization with JobRunr<\/a>; and the ability to opt out of persisting an event publication for a method annotated with the Spring Framework @TransactionalEventListener<\/a>. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The fourth milestone release<\/a> of Spring AI<\/a> 2.0.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: the ability to configure Google Search and custom tooling when calling models in the Gemini 3 release train; and support for dynamically disabling native structured output functionality that provides more flexibility in handling output. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Open Liberty<\/p>\n The GA release<\/a> of Open Liberty<\/a> 26.0.0.3 provides bug fixes and new features such as: a new method, getUsersByAttribute(), added to the UserRegistry<\/a> interface so that applications may retrieve specific user attributes, or search for users, based on attribute values; and support for the latest Jandex<\/a> index formats to optimize application startup times and reduce runtime costs.<\/p>\n Quarkus<\/p>\n The release<\/a> of Quarkus<\/a> 3.34.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and notable changes such as: a deprecation of the ObjectLoader<\/a> interface as it has been classified for internal use only and is tightly coupled to Gizmo<\/a> 1 that has been replaced by a rearchitected Gizmo 2; and a new getResourceNames() method, added to the PathTree<\/a> interface, that calls an instance of the PathTreeClassPathElement<\/a> class instead of creating its own set of resource names. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes for version 3.34.1<\/a>, version 3.34.0<\/a> and version 3.34.0.CR1<\/a>.<\/p>\n EclipseLink<\/p>\n The GA release<\/a> of EclipseLink<\/a> 5.0.0 ships with: support for the Jakarta Persistence 3.2 specification under Jakarta EE 11 with new features in the Jakarta Persistence Query Language<\/a> (JPQL); processing improvements with querying; platform improvements with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, DB2 and PostgreSQL; and general cleanup of logging, security and API. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Infinispan<\/p>\n The first development release of Infinispan<\/a> 16.2.0 provides bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: expansion of implemented commands in the Redis Serialization Protocol<\/a> specification (RESP) that includes BITFIELD<\/a>, SUBSCRIBE<\/a>, PUNSUBSCRIBE<\/a> and DIGEST<\/a>; and an implementation of the OpenAPI v3<\/a> specification in the Infinispan REST API<\/a>. 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