Java News Roundup: JobRunr 9, OpenXava 8, Quarkus, LangChain4j, JNoSQL, Introducing Lathe
InfoQ, Monday, October 5th, 2026
Java news for the week of Sept. 28: JobRunr 9.0 and OpenXava 8.0 GA, JEP 544 targeted for JDK 28, and the new Lathe language server.
InfoQ's Java roundup for the week of September 28, 2026 covers the GA releases of JobRunr 9.0 and OpenXava 8.0, point releases of Quarkus, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Eclipse JNoSQL and Google's ADK for Java and Kotlin, and Lathe, a new Java language server.
JEP 544, Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation, was elevated to Targeted for JDK 28 to improve startup and warmup, and JDK 28 early-access Build 18 shipped.
Ivar Grimstad also provided an update on the firmed-up Jakarta EE 12 timeline.