Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 7.0, Groovy 6.0, GraalVM, Hibernate, Quarkus, Gradle, Maven
This week's Java roundup for September 21st, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of TornadoVM 7.0 and Groovy 6.0; point releases of GraalVM and Gradle; maintenance releases of Quarkus and GDK for Micronaut; the seventh release candidate of Maven 4.0; milestone releases of Micrometer Metric
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This week's Java roundup for September 21st, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of TornadoVM 7.0 and Groovy 6.0; point releases of GraalVM and Gradle; maintenance releases of Quarkus and GDK for Micronaut; the seventh release candidate of Maven 4.0; milestone releases of Micrometer Metric
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- Performance, security, and runtime packaging changes may affect CI/CD and production operations.
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