Build 26-leydenpremain+1 of Project Leyden early-access builds, a pre-main prototype, was made available to the Java community this past week and is based on an incomplete version of JDK 26. This build features " prototype improvements to the startup time, time to peak performance, and footprint of Java programs." Including the upcoming release of JDK 25, three JEPs, namely: JEP 483, Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking; JEP 514, Ahead-of-Time Command-Line Ergonomics; and JEP 515, Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling, have been delivered by Project Leyden.