Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, CDI 5.0, Spring, Open Liberty, RefactorFirst, ADK for Kotlin

This week's Java roundup for September 7th, 2026, features news highlighting: new JEPs for ahead-of-time compilation and structured concurrency; GA releases of Jakarta CDI 5.0 and ADK for Kotlin 1.0; the September 2026 edition of Open Liberty; point releases of TornadoVM and RefactorFirst; a maintenance release of Micronaut; and first releases candidates of Groovy 6.0 and Gradle 9.8. By Michael Redlich

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