Enterprise Java development teams are shifting engineering focus toward the stabilization and regression testing of the next Critical Patch Update (CPU) cycle for long-term support runtimes, including Java 25.
The Java Development Kit (JDK) will stop trusting Transport Layer Security (TLS) server certificates anchored by legacy Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. root certificates if they were issued after March 17, 2026.
Hazelcast has officially released Hazelcast Platform 5.7.0, an update that introduces production-grade support for the Java 25 runtime environment. The release, launched on May 28, 2026, aims to strengthen the operational foundations of enterprise systems that rely on real-time processing.
Agreement expands use of Java technologies in Samsung Electronics’ global semiconductor software environment.
Several widely used Java frameworks and tools released new versions in the weeks surrounding Oracle's March 17 launch of JDK 26, as the Spring ecosystem and related projects continued iterating toward their next major releases.
Apache Geode has been revived after a near shutdown. Geode 2.0 is positioned as a modernization reset, not a minor upgrade.
The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.
Container security incidents remain a routine problem for software teams, and many of the day-to-day choices developers make to keep Java services easy to build and troubleshoot can increase security exposure, according to a new survey released by OpenJDK vendor BellSoft.
JHipster 9.0.0-beta.2 deprecates the first beta to fix generator stability issues while advancing the platform to Spring Boot 4.0.2 and a new baseline of Java 21 (plus updated WebSocket security and modernized full-stack tooling).
Java held its position near the top of a closely watched ranking of programming language popularity, even as Microsoft's C# won Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year honors for 2025, highlighting a continuing contest for influence in business software development.
The Eclipse Foundation, an international non-profit that hosts hundreds of open-source software projects, and Germany’s automotive industry association, VDA, say they have expanded an industry memorandum to build an "automotive-grade" open-source software ecosystem for software-defined vehicles.
TornadoVM, an open-source plug-in for OpenJDK and GraalVM that compiles and offloads Java code to accelerators such as GPUs, released version 2.0 last month, adding support for new data types and memory-handling features to improve performance and reduce overhead on heterogeneous systems.
Java platform provider Azul has acquired Payara, an application server company focused on Jakarta EE, as the vendor looks to expand beyond the Java runtime and sell a broader, commercially supported open-source stack to large enterprises.
DevOps platform provider JFrog introduces a new capability to help enterprises manage the risks associated with unregulated use of artificial intelligence.
Amazon Web Services has committed funding to the Eclipse Foundation to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of its open source infrastructure.
The Eclipse Foundation releases an open-source framework to standardize how companies build and deploy AI agents across their operations.
Perforce Software has announced a new feature for JRebel Enterprise designed to automate configuration management in Kubernetes-based development environments.
Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community.
GitHub launches a new AI-powered application modernization capability designed to simplify and accelerate upgrades and migrations of legacy .NET and Java applications.