Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Spring AI, JobRunr, GlassFish, Grails, Groovy, Quarkus Agent MCP (opens in new tab)

This week's Java roundup for May 4th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 27; the sixth milestone release of Spring AI 2.0; the first milestone release of Grails 8.0; the first alpha release of Groovy 6.0; a point release of JobRunr; maintenance releases of GlassFish, TomEE and Tomcat; an accelerated release train for GraalVM; and a new Quarkus Agent MCP server. By Michael Redlich