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What's New In The July 2026 Azul Payara Release?

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:28:58 +0000

The July 2026 release brings Azul Payara 7.2.0, Azul Payara Community 7.2026.7, Azul Payara 6.40.0, Azul Payara 5.89.0, and Azul Payara 4.1.2.191.57. A single security fix runs through every release, backported from the 7 line down to Payara 4: brute force attack prevention for authentication. Enterprise 6.40.0 additionally closes two Jackson CVEs that apply to the 6 line.

Downloads & Release Notes

Azul Payara Community (free version) - download

Azul Payara Community 7.2026.7 - release notes

Azul Payara (supported) - free trial

Azul Payara 7.2.0 - release notes

A Security Fix, Patched Across Every Branch

Brute force attack prevention has been added across Azul Payara Server and Micro 7.2.0, 6.40.0, 5.89.0, and 4.1.2.191.57, and Azul Payara Community 7.2026.7. The fix protects authentication against repeated credential guessing.

What's New In The June 2026 Azul Payara Release?

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:28:52 +0000

The June 2026 cycle ships the first regular monthly release of the Payara 7 line, plus a critical security fix that lands across every supported branch. Azul Payara 7.1.0 continues the Jakarta EE 11 line that went generally available in May, and is joined by Azul Payara Community 7.2026.6, Azul Payara 6.39.0, Azul Payara 5.88.0, and Azul Payara 4.1.2.191.56.

A single security fix, backported from Payara 7 down to Payara 4, runs through every release in this cycle. Two supported lines, 5.88.0 and 6.39.0, also carry a behaviour change to the server “ready” signal that a minority of deployments will want to read before upgrading.

What's New in the May 2026 Payara Platform Release | Azul

Thu, 14 May 2026 11:40:02 +0000

The May 2026 release is the largest Payara milestone since the project’s inception. Azul Payara Server 7 and Azul Payara Micro 7 ship as generally available, both certified against Jakarta EE 11. This is the first major Payara product release under the Azul brand, arriving six months after Azul completed its acquisition of Payara in December 2025.

Azul Payara Community 7 (download here ), the open-source distribution, was the first implementation of any kind to certify across all three Jakarta EE 11 profiles (Full, Web Profile, Core Profile). Azul Payara Server 7 brings that certification to a commercially supported product with enterprise SLAs, making it the first commercially supported Jakarta EE 11 runtime from a major enterprise application server vendor. Both products ship with MicroProfile 6.1 (Config, Metrics, Health, Fault Tolerance, JWT, OpenAPI, REST Client, Telemetry Tracing). Azul Payara Server 7 holds Final TCK certification across all three profiles:

Spring Boot Actuator Health for MicroProfile Developers

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:30:00 +0000

If you worked with MicroProfile Health, you already understand the value of exposing application health information through standardized endpoints. You know about liveness, readiness and startup probes. You implemented the HealthCheck interface and annotated your procedures with @Liveness, @Readiness and @Startup. Spring Boot Actuator follows a similar philosophy but takes a different architectural approach. This post will help you map your MicroProfile Health knowledge to Spring’s world.

The Conceptual BridgeThe Conceptual Bridge

At its core, Spring Boot Actuator serves the same purpose as MicroProfile Health: it provides a mechanism for validating the availability and status of your application in containerized environments. Both specifications recognize that modern cloud platforms like Kubernetes need machine-readable health information to make decisions about pod lifecycle management.

What’s New in the January 2026 Payara Platform Release?

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:37:09 +0000

As we begin 2026, we’re pleased to announce new releases across all Payara Platform editions this January: Payara Platform Community 7.2026.1 , Payara Platform Enterprise 6.34.0 and 5.83.0 . These releases deliver important security fixes, address deployment and administration issues as well as refreshing multiple component versions across the platform.

Security Priority

This month’s releases address two security vulnerabilities. First, we’ve resolved CVE-2020-5258, a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the dojo.js library (versions 6.0.2 and earlier). This fix applies to Payara Platform Community 7.2026.1 and Payara Platform Enterprise 6.34.0, with dojo.js now upgraded to version 6.0.3.

Revolutionising Java Collections: The Advent of Sequenced Collections in Java 21

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 14:07:42 +0000

Java has been a staple in the software development world for decades, renowned for its robustness and vast ecosystem. However, some seasoned Java developers have encountered limitations within its collections framework, particularly when dealing with ordered elements.

Enter JEP 431. JEP 431, part of the Java Enhancement Proposal system, represents a significant advancement in Java’s ongoing evolution.

The Java Enhancement Proposal system is a process for proposing, reviewing, and implementing new features in the Java programming language.

Payara Platform Surpasses 150,000 Monthly Users

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:42:38 +0000

Payara Services , the leading provider of open source Jakarta EE application server software, is proud to announce a significant milestone in the global adoption of Payara Platform.

Designed for mission-critical systems in production and containerized Jakarta EE and MicroProfile applications, with over 150,000 users globally relying on Payara Platform every month, Payara has firmly established itself as a preferred choice among developers, as well as companies and institutions worldwide.

Java 21 and Jakarta EE 11: A New Era of Cloud Native Java

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:28:38 +0000

With Java 21 released and Jakarta EE 11 slated for release in Q1 of 2024, the landscape for Java development is evolving rapidly, particularly in the cloud-native space. Although these two are not being developed together, they are intrinsically linked: Jakarta EE 11 will have Java 21 as its base Java SE version. This blog post will explore what these two significant releases bring to the table individually and how they can collectively enhance cloud native Java development.

Manage Different Java Versions on Your Machine with SDKMan!

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:05:16 +0000

So, you’re a Java developer, or maybe you’re aspiring to be one. Either way, you’ve probably faced the challenge of managing multiple versions of Java on your machine. One project requires Java 8, but another needs Java 11, yet another requires Java 17. The open-source library you’re keen on contributing to needs yet another version. What do you do? You start juggling environment variables, and before you know it, your system is a tangled mess of configurations. Not fun, right?

Getting Started With Apache Camel On Jakarta EE 10

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:20:06 +0000

Apache Camel is an open source enterprise integration framework that helps you connect different systems and applications together with as little effort as possible. It provides a simple and powerful way to define and implement message-based routing and mediation rules. It is an implementation of the patterns described in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf.

In simple terms, Apache Camel acts as a “translator” or “bridge” between different systems. It allows you to easily route, transform, and process messages as they move from one system to another. It supports a wide range of communication protocols and data formats (JSON, XML, YAML, etc.), making it easier to integrate different technologies and applications.

Enterprise Java Applications With Jakarta EE and Vaadin

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:26:07 +0000

Watch this webinar recording to get an overview of the Vaadin framework and learn how to use it to build modern web applications on the Jakarta EE Platform in pure Java, without any frontend framework.

Find out more about the core features of Jakarta EE, like its dependency injection (Jakarta CDI) and persistence (Jakarta Persistence) APIs. Additionally, you will learn how to use Vaadin and Jakarta EE to build responsive web applications that can run on different devices and browsers.

Exploring Java Records In A Jakarta EE Context

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:08:35 +0000

Java Records, one of the major highlights of the Java 16 release, provides a concise and immutable way to define classes for modelling data.

This conciseness lends itself useful in a typical Jakarta EE application that can have a number of layers that need to share data.

For example, the data layer might want to return a subset of a given data set to a calling client through a data projection object.

A Quick Look At Faces (JSF) 4.0 In Jakarta EE 10

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:07:05 +0000

Jakarta EE 10 shipped with the fourth major release of its component based web framework Jakarta Faces.

Hitherto known as Jakarta Server Faces, and Java Server Faces before that, Jakarta Faces , or just Faces, version 4.0 is the first major version with API change since version 2.3 in Java EE 8.

Among the major changes in this version are the following.

Issue #1581 : New API to programmatically create Facelets
Issue #1508 : New automatic extensionless mapping
Issue #1509 : New annotation @ClientWindowScoped
Issue #1555 : New attribute <h:inputFile multiple="…">
Issue #1556 : New attribute <h:inputFile accept="…">
Issue #1559 : New tag <f:selectItemGroups>
Issue #1560 : New attribute <h:inputText type="…">
Issue #1563 : New tag <f:selectItemGroup>
Issue #1565 : Skip type attribute from <link> and <script> when doctype is HTML5

There were also some pruning of the API such as:

What’s New in Jakarta REST 3.1 in Jakarta EE 10?

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:30:17 +0000

The Representational State Transfer or RESTful architecture is a stateless, HTTP based communication standard for modern applications. It was originally proposed by Dr. Roy Fielding in his PhD thesis.

It has, over the years, become the default programming language-agnostic means of enabling machine-to-machine communication.

An application written in the Django framework in Python can have REST resources that are consumed by another application written in Java with Jakarta EE. Similarly, a Jakarta EE application can create resources that can be consumed by a C# application.