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Java December 2025 Roundup: Vault, Micronaut, Gradle & More

What’s New This Week The Java world’s been busy. JDK 26 and 27 early-access builds are rolling out, frameworks are getting smarter about security, and build tools are finally fixing those little annoyances we’ve all learned to live with. Here’s what actually matters from December 22nd. Spring Vault Gets a Proper Client API Spring Vault just introduced VaultClient and ReactiveVaultClient—two new interfaces that sit between your code and Vault. The interesting bit? They enforce relative paths only. No more accidentally hitting absolute paths and opening up security holes. It’s a small change, but it closes a bug class that’s bitten plenty of teams. Coming in Spring Vault 4.1.0. ...

December 29, 2025 · 2 min · TechLife
Java Roundup November 24th 2025

Java Roundup: Spring Cloud, Quarkus, and Hibernate ORM Updates

Key Highlights Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 released with bug fixes and updates to sub-projects Quarkus 3.30 delivers new features, including support for Jackson @JsonView annotation Hibernate ORM 7.2.0.CR3 provides notable changes, such as a new @EmbeddedTable annotation The Java ecosystem has seen significant updates in the past week, with several popular frameworks releasing new versions. This move reflects broader industry trends towards cloud-native development and microservices architecture. As developers, it’s essential to stay up-to-date with the latest developments to ensure we’re building scalable and efficient systems. ...

December 1, 2025 · 2 min · TechLife