This week’s Java roundup for August 4th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 25 and Grails 7.0; the release of WildFly 37; the August edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of LangChain4j, JBang and Hibernate projects; and maintenance releases of Spring AI, JobRunr and Apache Tomcat.<\/p>\n
JDK 25<\/p>\n
Build 35<\/a> of the JDK 25 early-access builds<\/a> was made available this past week featuring updates<\/a> from Build 34 that include fixes for various issues<\/a>. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n As per the JDK 25 release schedule<\/a>, Mark Reinhold<\/a>, chief architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, formally declared<\/a> that JDK 25 has entered its first release candidate<\/a> as there are no unresolved P1 bugs in Build 35. The anticipated GA release is scheduled for September 16, 2025, and will include a final set of 18 features.<\/p>\n JDK 26<\/p>\n Build 10<\/a> of the JDK 26 early-access builds<\/a> was also made available this past week featuring updates<\/a> from Build 9 that include fixes for various issues<\/a>. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Framework<\/p>\n The release<\/a> of Spring AI<\/a> 1.0.1 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: custom templates added to the KeywordMetadataEnricher<\/a> class for improved flexibility with metadata; an improved OllamaChatModel<\/a> class that adds integration with the retry template; and improvements to the @Tool<\/a> annotation for enhanced function calling capabilities. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n WildFly<\/p>\n The release<\/a> of WildFly<\/a> 37 primarily focused on bug fixes, cleaning up technical debt and the transition<\/a> of WildFly to the Commonhaus Foundation<\/a>. Other notable changes include: many dependency upgrades; and a new commit-level attribute for moving ActiveMQ Artemis<\/a> messages from the server during scaledown that defines a more reasonable transaction size to avoid an OutOfMemoryError exception. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Payara<\/p>\n Payara has released<\/a> their August 2025 edition of the Payara Platform<\/a> that includes Community Edition 6.2025.8, Enterprise Edition 6.29.0, Enterprise Edition 5.78.0 and Payara 7.2025.1.Alpha4. All four editions deliver a critical security fix related to CVE-2025-22871<\/a>, a request smuggling<\/a> vulnerability in Grizzly<\/a> that allows attackers to bypass security controls or poison web caches due to improper handling of chunked transfer coding.<\/p>\n Other notable fixes include: a NullPointerException when using database transactions with entity listener components that inject CDI beans in processes annotated with Jakarta Enterprise Beans’ @Asynchronous<\/a>; and an issue in the admin interface where existing security realms only displayed their names without showing their configured properties.<\/p>\n Further details on these releases may be found in the release notes for Community Edition 6.2025.8<\/a> and Enterprise Edition 6.29.0<\/a> and Enterprise Edition 5.78.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hibernate<\/p>\n The release<\/a> of Hibernate ORM<\/a> 7.1.0.Final delivers new features such as: a new Locking<\/a> interface, consisting of the Locking.Scope<\/a> and Locking.FollowOn<\/a> enum classes, that extend the Jakarta Persistence PessimisticLockScope<\/a> enum class to support various aspects of pessimistic locking; a new Timeouts<\/a> interface that serves as a helper to the Jakarta Persistence Timeout<\/a> class; and support for resource discovery in Java SE environments to complement the same in Jakarta EE environments. More details on this release may be found in the what’s new<\/a> page.<\/p>\n Hibernate Reactive<\/a> 3.1.0.Final features compatibility with Hibernate ORM 7.1.0.Final and an upgrade to Jackson Databind<\/a> 2.19.2. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The release<\/a> of Hibernate Search<\/a> 8.1.0.Final features: compatibility with Hibernate ORM 7.1.0.Final; upgrades to versions 9.1 and 8.19 of Elasticsearch<\/a>; and the ability to request terms and range aggregations<\/a> for more than just counts. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n LangChain4j<\/p>\n The formal release (along with the ninth beta release) of LangChain4j<\/a> 1.3.0 delivers: two new experimental modules, langchain4j-agentic and langchain4j-agentic-a2a, that offer a set of abstractions and utilities for building agentic, AI-infused applications; and use of the withFloatVectors() method that replaces the deprecated withVectors() method defined in the Milvus SearchParam<\/a> class. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n JobRunr<\/p>\n JobRunr<\/a> 8.0.2, the second maintenance release, provides bug fixes and notable changes such as: moving the poll interval in scheduling carbon-aware jobs to its own configuration resulting in fewer database calls; and improved logging that eliminates missing or inconsistent names and IDs related to the JobRunr lifecycle. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a> and more information on the recent release of JobRunr 8.0 may be found in this InfoQ news story<\/a><\/p>\n JBang<\/p>\n The release of JBang<\/a> 0.129.0 delivers these notable changes: improved startup time by lazily loading the PicoCli<\/a> help information during scanning of the PATH environment variable for plugins; and the inner classes defined in the App<\/a> class, namely: AppList, AppUninstall and AppSetup, now extend the BaseCommand<\/a> class to expose the –help command line option. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Apache Software Foundation<\/p>\n Versions 11.0.10, 10.1.44 and 9.0.108 of Apache Tomcat<\/a> (announced here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, respectively) ship with notable changes such as: a resolution to issues populating the bloom filter, via the JarContents<\/a> class, used for achieve indexing with a packed WAR file containing one or more JAR files; and a new dispatchEndRequest() method, added to the AbstractProcessor<\/a> class, to set the keepAliveTimeout property in the server.xml file when using HTTP\/1.1 following an asynchronous server request. More details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 11.0.10<\/a>, version 10.1.44<\/a> and version 9.0.108<\/a>.<\/p>\n Grails<\/p>\n The first release candidate of Grails<\/a> 7.0.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and notable changes such as: an enhanced CreateReleaseDropDownTask<\/a> class such that it can be reused by the Grails Spring Security<\/a> plugin; and a new optional Spring Boot virtual threads feature added to Grails Forge<\/a>. 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