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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. ...

The Debezium team has wrapped up 2025 with a substantial release: Debezium 3.4.0.Final. This version brings a rich collection of new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes designed to make change data capture (CDC) more powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready. Whether you’re streaming data from relational databases, building cloud-native pipelines with Quarkus, or working with spatial data types, this release has something to offer. What Makes Debezium 3.4 Stand Out? Debezium 3.4 is built against Kafka Connect 4.1.1, marking an important milestone for compatibility with the latest Kafka ecosystem. The upgrade addresses a class-loading regression present in earlier Kafka versions, ensuring smoother deployments for teams running modern Kafka infrastructure. ...

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. ...