Endive 1.0, the pure-Java WebAssembly runtime formerly known as Chicory, has officially released under the Bytecode Alliance and is available on Maven Central. Key additions include full WasmGC spec support (enabling Kotlin/Wasm, Dart, and other GC-managed languages to run on the JVM with native JVM GC integration), tail-call optimization benefiting CPython 3.14-based workloads, and a new treesitter4j library that compiles tree-sitter and multiple language grammars to a single Wasm module for use as a plain Maven dependency. Migration from Chicory is a find-and-replace of Maven coordinates. The release also demonstrates running javac compiled to Wasm via GraalVM WebImage back inside Endive, and a wasmCloud host built in Java using Endive. Upcoming work includes Component Model support and Cranelift-based native compilation.
