JDK 25 entered its second release candidate after resolving a conformance issue in Build 36, with GA scheduled for September 16, 2025 and a final set of 18 features. Build 36 remains the current JDK 25 early-access build while JDK 26 Build 12 delivers fixes over Build 11. Multiple Spring projects published second milestone releases across core and ancillary modules. Eclipse JNoSQL 1.1.10 improves Jakarta Data performance, adds named query parameter support in JDQL, and introduces restriction keywords including STARTS_WITH and IGNORE_CASE in the Jakarta Persistence driver. Quarkus, Apache Camel and Apache TomEE received maintenance updates.
This week's Java roundup for August 18th, 2025, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 25; a point release of Apache Camel; maintenance releases of Eclipse JNoSQL, Quarkus and Apache TomEE; and the Quarkus team implementing the resolution to CVE-2025-55163. As per the JDK 25 release schedule, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, formally declared that JDK 25 has entered its second release candidate having resolved a conformance issue in Build 36. The GA release, scheduled for September 16, 2025, will include a final set of 18 features:
Build 12 of the JDK 26 early-access builds was made available this past week featuring updates from Build 11 that include fixes for various issues. More details on this release may be found in the release notes. It was a busy week over at Spring as the various teams have delivered second milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch and Spring for Apache Pulsar. More details may be found in this InfoQ news story.
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