Java News Roundup: JDK 27-RC1, OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, BellSoft, Helidon, Micrometer, Tika 4.0
InfoQ, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
JDK 27 reaches release candidate with nine features ahead of its September general availability.
JDK 27 Build 35 has reached release candidate status with no unresolved P1 bugs, targeting general availability on September 15, 2026.
The release delivers nine finalized features including G1 as the default garbage collector, post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, and structured concurrency.
JEP 541 and JEP 540 have been targeted for JDK 28, covering deprecation of the macOS/x64 port and a standard JSON API.
Other news includes Apache Tika 4.0 with markdown parsing and AI inference modules, Helidon 4.5.3, and milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics 1.18.0 and Micrometer Tracing 1.8.0.