Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 26, Spring RCs, Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, Gradle
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 26, Spring RCs, Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, Gradle
"This feature simplifies concurrent programming by introducing the concept of structured concurrency to " treat groups of related tasks running in different threads as a single unit of work, thereby streamlining error handling and cancellation, improving reliability, and enhancing observability." The only significant change is the addition of a method to the StructuredTaskScope.Joiner interface, that allows for implementations of that interface to return a result after the timeout expires."
"This JEP proposes an eleventh incubation, with no substantial implementation changes since JDK 25, after ten rounds of incubation delivered in JDK 16 through JDK 25. This feature introduces an API to " express vector computations that reliably compile at runtime to optimal vector instructions on supported CPU architectures, thus achieving performance superior to equivalent scalar computations." The Vector API will continue to incubate until the necessary features of Project Valhalla become available as preview features."
Multiple OpenJDK JEPs were elevated to Proposed to Target for JDK 26, including JEP 525 (Structured Concurrency sixth preview) and JEP 529 (Vector API eleventh incubator). JEP 525 adds a StructuredTaskScope.Joiner method that permits implementations to return a result after a timeout; review expected to conclude November 7, 2025. JEP 529 continues incubation pending Project Valhalla features and will adapt and promote when those preview features become available. JEP 516 was also elevated. Release candidates for Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Data were published. Point releases arrived for Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, and Gradle. Jakarta EE 12 received an update.
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