August 25, 2026•1 min read•from InfoQ

Java News Roundup: JDK 27-RC1, OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, BellSoft, Helidon, Micrometer, Tika 4.0

This week's Java roundup for August 17th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 27; JEP 541 and JEP 540 targeted for JDK 28; the GA release of Apache Tika 4.0; a maintenance release of Helidon; the first milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics 1.18 and Micrometer Tracing 1.8; an update on Jakarta EE 12; and BellSoft Critical Security Patch Updates.

By Michael Redlich

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