Release Notes

Virtual Foojay OpenJDK 17+ JUG Tour

To celebrate OpenJDK 17 and Foojay.io as a community platform for its users, we’re kicking off the Virtual Foojay OpenJDK 17+ JUG Tour.

Ari Waller, JFrog’s Event Manager, well known to many JUGs, will continue to wear a second hat—that of Foojay Event Manager.

During September and October, contributors to Foojay will be making a whistle stop tour through as many JUGs as possible, via their virtual meetups! (And if you’re not holding virtual events or don’t have the facilities for this, we can support by making these available as needed.)

FXGL Game Engine 11.17 Release

The FXGL game engine is now at 11.17. Most of the changes in this release focus on internal code quality and fixes.

Major additions to note:

1. Added download file API to NetService. Using this API developers can download files from any URL. For example, if certain assets are stored remotely.

2. Rotation and scale in 3D now support origin points (pivot points). This is a beneficial addition since some animations will need specific origin points for transformations to achieve the desired effect.

JReleaser 0.5.0 Released!

JReleaser v0.5.0 has been released!

JReleaser is a tool that streamlines creating releases for [Java] projects.

It can create a GitHub/GitLab/Gitea release, while also packaging binaries for Homebrew, Snapcraft, Docker, Chocolatey, Scoop, JBang and, more than that, announces releases to Twitter, SdkMan!, e-mail, Zulip, Discord, Gitter, Slack, Teams, and more.

JMC 8.0.1 Released!

The 8.0.1-ga tag was just set in the jmc8 repository on GitHub.

This is a patch update release, and will therefore not include any new features.

The next upcoming source release is JMC 8.1.0, which will contain new features and enhancements. The planned source release date for JMC 8.1.0 is the 2nd of August 2021.

New Java/JavaFX Library FXSkins Released

A new Java / JavaFX library has been released. It’s called FXSkins.

FXSkins is a collection of new Skins for existing JavaFX controls. These Skins will add more functionality to the controls used in your applications with almost no need to make changes to your application’s code.

This library is targeted for the most recent Java versions.

JReleaser 0.4.0 is now available

JReleaser v0.4.0 has been released!

JReleaser is a tool that streamlines creating releases for [Java] projects. I

It can create a GitHub/GitLab/Gitea release, while packaging binaries for Homebrew, Snapcraft, Docker, Chocolatey, Scoop, JBang and also announces releases to Twitter, SdkMan!, e-mail, Zulip, Discord, Gitter, Slack, Teams, and more.

It’s CI friendly and runs on a variety of services.

JReleaser provides a unified model across all supported services and delivers equal user experience on local environments and CI servers.

Jakarta EE 9.1 Released!

The Jakarta EE Working Group Releases Jakarta EE 9.1 as Industry Continues to Embrace Open Source Enterprise Java!

Jakarta EE 9.1 adds support for Java SE 11 runtimes to the foundational Jakarta EE 9 release.

This gives developers more flexibility when migrating from previous Jakarta EE releases.

FXGL Game Engine 11.16 Release

1. The restored Multiplayer Service allows easy replications of input, events and entities on a remote machine. For example, by just adding a single line of code (see MultiplayerService API), any key or mouse inputs that occur on one end of the connection can be replicated on the other end.

2. The new FPS camera allows easy control of the player (or their “line of sight”) in the context of a first-person 3D game.

3. There is no longer a transitive dependency on the javafx.swing module. This means FXGL users will not need an extra module in their module graph.

Payara Services Wins Prestigious Queen’s Award!

Micro-multinational open source software company, Payara Services, has been commended for its achievements within global trading and exporting with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade.

Now in its 55th year, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade is the UK’s most prestigious business award, honouring organisations that have excelled in overseas exports whilst maintaining the highest standards in social, economic, and environmental activity.

Run WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on OpenShift

We are very happy to announce the availability of initial guidance to run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO).

This is the first release delivered through an ongoing collaboration between IBM and Microsoft around the WebSphere family of products and Azure.

Developed alongside IBM, the guidance utilizes the Open Liberty Operator and provides step-by-step instructions for running WebSphere Liberty or Open Liberty on an ARO cluster.

Apple Silicon with Zulu OpenJDK and IntelliJ IDEA

Azul has been leading the OpenJDK community effort (JEP 391) initiated in August 2020 to add support for Apple Silicon, Arm-based Macs, in future versions of OpenJDK.

In addition to targeting future Java versions, such as Java 16 via JEP 391, Azul has made OpenJDK builds of currently popular Java versions, including Zulu builds of OpenJDK 8, 11, and 13, as well as 16-ea, widely available for use on Apple Silicon, Arm-based Macs.