Gradle 9.9.0 is out. Kotlin DSL script recompilation is up to 65% faster in one large-project test; JUnit Platform test filters now cover non-method tests such as ArchUnit rules. Wrapper upgrades also preserve customized properties. https://docs.gradle.org/9.9.0/release-notes.html
In an older Jakarta Faces application, I'm still using AdminFaces. Since it's no longer maintained, I asked IntelliJ Junie to fix the issue. Junie failed, just as it has failed so many times before. Can't recommend it. Once again, its big brother from OpenAI had to clean up the mess.
Spring Boot 4.2.0-RC2 is available on Maven Central. The release includes 99 changes, including Reactor Netty support for X-Forwarded-Prefix and a fix for Redis master/replica database selection. https://spring.io/blog/2026/11/06/spring-boot-4-2-0-RC2-available-now
In diesem Video portiere ich mit Muse Spark 1.2 in OpenCode Zen auf X-HIGH die TypeScript-Bibliothek „beautiful-mermaid“ nach Java. Das Ergebnis heißt Jarielle und stellt Mermaid-Diagramme mit Java2D und Swing dar, mit automatischem Layout durch den Eclipse Layout Kernel (ELK). Ein Praxisblick auf Agenten-Coding an …
Hibernate ORM 8.0.0. Beta4 is out: @filter and @SQLRestriction now work on to-one associations, a new @GeneratorOptimizer annotation, a Hibernate-only BOM, CDI-enabled interceptors and checks for final persistent fields. Still beta while Jakarta Persistence awaits approval—read the migration guide first. …
Arcana is a new pure-Java library and CLI (Apache 2.0, Java 8+, ~1.2 MB, no dependencies) that lists, extracts, and identifies 40+ archive, compression, and disk-image formats, from ZIP, 7z and RAR to MSI, ISO and DMG, with guards against path traversal and zip bombs. …
Spring AI 2.1.0-RC1 adds message parts across major providers (keeping reasoning and tool calls in order), a new event-log session memory API with JDBC storage, human-in-the-loop tool call confirmation, and support for the pure-JVM jinfer engine. ChatMemory is deprecated for removal in 3.0. 2.0.2 ships too. …
Spring Boot 4.2.0-RC1 is out with 113 enhancements, fixes, and dependency upgrades. https://spring.io/blog/2026/10/23/spring-boot-4-2-0-RC1-available-now Highlights: faster startup thanks to quicker class/resource lookup in executable jars, a new default Buildpacks builder based on Ubuntu 26.04, and a properties …
Hibernate Validator 9.2.0.Beta1 is out, the first release of the 9.2 series. It adds password constraints (@PasswordStrength, @NotCompromised, @PasswordPolicy), @NullOrNotBlank/@NullOrNotEmpty, many text, date and identifier constraints (e.g. @IBAN, @BIC), plus a new bean resolution system. Many of the new features …
Devoxx Belgium session is now on Inside.java: Alan Bateman and Viktor Klang on Structured Concurrency—design rationale, cancellation/error handling and observability, lessons from the previews, and a new lower-level API that could underpin future structured concurrency APIs. …