JavaFX 25 is here with several new features and improvements! JavaFX 25 is designed to work with JDK 25, and is known to work with JDK 23 and later versions.

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JavaFX 25 introduces several new features including preview support for JavaFX controls in the title bar, CSS styling capabilities for RichTextArea highlights, CSS media feature queries for dynamic styling, TabStopPolicy for TextFlow with geometric positioning, additional geometry-based APIs for Text and TextFlow components, and a new Text Layout API with LayoutInfo objects for text geometry snapshots.

JavaFX 25 Highlights – Inside.java

JavaFX Controls in the Title Bar (Preview)

RichTextArea (Incubator) : CSS Styling of Highlights

Additional Geometry-Based Text / TextFlow APIs