Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, CDI 5.0, Spring, Open Liberty, RefactorFirst, ADK for Kotlin
InfoQ, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Java ecosystem updates featuring new OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta CDI 5.0 GA, and ADK for Kotlin 1.0.
This week's Java roundup highlights JEP 544 for ahead-of-time compilation and JEP 543 for structured concurrency advancing to candidate status, improving application startup and concurrent programming. Jakarta CDI 5.0 achieved general availability as the first specification targeting Jakarta EE 12.
Additional releases include Open Liberty 26.0.0.9 with MCP Server elevation to GA, Google's ADK for Kotlin 1.0 with full feature parity, RefactorFirst 0.10.0 supporting Kotlin source files, and first release candidates for Gradle 9.8.0 and Apache Groovy 6.0.0.