Java News Roundup: Grails 8, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Infinispan, LangChain4j, Spock
This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the GA releases
What happened
This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the GA releases of Apache Grails 8.0 and Open Liberty 20.0.0.10; point releases of TornadoVM, Infinispan, LangChain4j and Spock; and a maintenance release of GlassFish. By Michael Redlich
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Where it came from
Reported by InfoQ. Full details are in the original, linked below.
What to do with it
Treat this as a briefing, not a replacement for the primary source. If the change touches your stack, verify release notes and rollout status before acting.