Java News Roundup: Java Turns 28, Payara Platform

This week’s Java roundup for May 22nd, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Cloud 2022.0.3, Spring Shell 3.1.0, 3.0.4 and 2.1.10, Spring Security Kerberos 2.0-RC2, Payara Platform, Quartus 3.0.4 and 2.13.8, WildFly 28.0.1, Micronaut 4.0-M5, Helidon 2.6.1, MicroStream 8.1.0, Apache Camel 3.20.5, JDKMon 17.0.61, JHipster Lite 0.33.0, Java’s 28th Birthday and Azul State of Java survey.

OpenJDK

JEP 451, Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents, has been promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 21. Originally known as Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents by Default, and following the approach of JEP Draft 8305968, Integrity and Strong Encapsulation, this JEP has evolved from its original intent to disallow the dynamic loading of agents into a running JVM by default to issue warnings when agents are dynamically loaded into a running JVM. Goals of this JEP include: reassess the balance between serviceability and integrity; and ensure that a majority of tools, which do not need to dynamically load agents, are unaffected. The review is expected to conclude on May 31, 2023. InfoQ will follow up with a more detailed news story.

In response to numerous questions about the design philosophy of the exhaustiveness checking in pattern switch, Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle, and Gavin Bierman, consulting member of technical staff at Oracle, have published a document detailing the connection between the properties of unconditionality, exhaustiveness and remainder.

JDK 21

Build 24 of the JDK 21 early-access builds was also made available this past week featuring updates from Build 23 that include fixes to various issues. Further details on this build may be found in the release notes.

For JDK 21, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.

Spring Framework

The release of Spring Cloud 2022.0.3, codenamed Kilburn, delivers compatibility with Spring Boot 3.1 and updates to Spring Cloud sub-projects such as: Spring Cloud OpenFeign 4.0.3, Spring Cloud Commons 4.0.3, Spring Cloud Kubernetes 3.0.3 and Spring Cloud Starter Build 2022.0.3. There are, however, breaking changes with the removal of sub-projects: Spring Cloud CLI, Spring Cloud for Cloud Foundry and Spring Cloud Sleuth. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

Versions 3.1.0, 3.0.4 and 2.1.10 of Spring Shell have been released featuring notable fixes such as: an instance of the ConfirmationInput class does not show the option selected when typing; and having target method argument as a boolean argument fails if the @Option or @ShellOption annotations are not used. These versions build upon Spring Boot versions 3.1.0, 3.0.7 and 2.7.12, respectively. Further details on these releases may be found in the release notes for version 3.1.0, version 3.0.4 and version 2.1.10.

The second release candidate of Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0 features a dependency upgrade to Spring Security 6.1.0. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.

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