This week's Java roundup for December 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Spring Tools 5.0; milestone releases of Spring AI and Spring Shell; the December 2025 edition of the Payara

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JDK 26 Build 28 and JDK 27 Build 2 early-access builds are now available with various bug fixes. Spring Tools 5.0 brings support for Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Boot 4.0, and AI integration with Cursor and Copilot. Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 introduces customizable tool calling loops and flexible text segmentation. Hibernate ORM 7.2.0 adds the @EmbeddedTable annotation and improved multi-ID loading. Payara Platform December 2025 edition includes experimental CRaC support. Apache Tomcat releases 11.0.15, 10.1.50, and 9.0.113 add strictSNI attribute for SNI host name matching. Spock Framework 2.4.0 adds Groovy 5.0 support and snapshot testing capabilities.

Java News Roundup: Spring Tools 5, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Hibernate ORM, Spock Framework