New Between-Quarters Security Updates for Java: What CSPUs Mean for Your Release Pipeline
Table of Contents What's ChangingWhy NowCSPU Versus CPUWhat You Need To DoAzul ReadinessConclusionIn an announcement on the OpenJDK Updates Mailinglist on July 20, 2026, Rob McKenna explained a change in the Oracle security release cycle for JDK builds. They plan ...
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Own Your Pixels: Native Fidelity on Your Schedule
Codename One statically links its lightweight UI into your native app, so an OS update cannot silently redesign it. New native-reference fidelity tests let us adopt iOS 26 Liquid Glass and Material 3 on our schedule without surrendering control of the pixels.
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AI Found the Bugs. Who’s Patching Your EOL Java Code?
Table of Contents Discovery Has Stopped Being the Hard Part530 Bugs Disclosed. About 75 Fixed.The NCSC Says Brace for a Patch WaveRead the Small Print on the Rescue PlansFixes Arrive on the Maintainers’ TermsFor Most of Maven Central, There’s Nobody …
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Azul Zulu July 2026 Quarterly Update Released
Table of Contents The Quarterly Update CycleCritical Patch Updates (CPU)Patch Set Updates (PSU)Getting the Most Out of CPU and PSU ReleasesVersion Bumps in This ReleaseSecurity and Bug Fixes in This ReleaseAzul Zulu July 2026 Release NotesLucida Monotype Fonts Leave Zulu …
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BoxLang AWS, Azure, and Google Secrets Manager Module Released
Table of Contents One Pattern to Rule Them AllInstallationInstallationCommandBoxVia CommandBoxVia BoxLang OS BinaryHow Configuration Resolution WorksPer-Application Configuration (Application.bx)Global Server Configuration (boxlang.json)Real-World Usage: Datasource ConfigurationBuilt-In Caching: Performance Without CompromiseLocal Development SupportEnvironment Variable SupportThis Is a BoxLang+ FeatureGet Started Every production application …
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First Test of Java on Banana Pi (ARM and RISC-V), Plus a Blinking LED with Pi4J
Table of Contents ARM versus RISC-V?Banana PiFirst ImpressionsBanana Pi BPI-M4 ZeroBanana Pi BPI-F3Testing with Java and Pi4JBanana Pi BPI-M4 ZeroPi4j on the Banana Pi ZeroBanana Pi BPI-F3Benchmark ResultsConclusionAs part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this …
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How We Beat HotSpot Performance (By Cheating, But Not Like That)
ParparVM went from 4.21x slower than warmed Java 25 to geomean parity, with six of ten benchmarks at or below HotSpot and peak memory below the JVM’s. The architecture behind it: frameless C codegen, a BiBOP page heap, and a poor man’s Valhalla.
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Warm Up Fast, Run Lean: Vertical Scaling for Java on Kubernetes with Azul Prime and Kedify
Table of Contents Why JVM Warmup and Steady State Should Not Share the Same Resource ProfilePodResourceProfiles: Vertical Scaling Without RestartsMeasuring JVM Warm-up Using Azul Prime JMX MetricsMetrics: What This AchievesHow Vertical and Horizontal Scaling Work TogetherTry It YourselfClosing ThoughtsAutoscaling on …
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Your Loom App Quietly Became a Thread Pool Again: A Field Guide to Virtual Thread Pinning
Table of Contents What pinning actually isThe two causes — and it really is just twoThe canonical bugWhat JDK 24 changed (JEP 491)How to catch itHow to fix itWhy I ended up automating the readThe incident that taught me to …
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BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more
Table of Contents 🔤 Headline: BoxStringBuilder and Dramatically Faster String ConcatenationThe Performance StoryA First-Class BoxStringBuilder TypeOptimization 1: &= Does In-Place AppendOptimization 2: Compiler Self-Assignment RewriteOptimization 3: Compile-Time Literal FoldingOptimization 4: Auto-Switching Runtime Concat StrategyJava Interop Nuance🚀 Headline: Pluggable ClassLoader Factory …