Weekly Java ecosystem roundup covering: JEP 539 (Strict Field Initialization in the JVM) promoted to Candidate status, requiring fields to be initialized before reading; JDK 27 Build 29 and JDK 28 Build 5 early-access releases; GlassFish 7.1.1 with bug fixes and patches for two RCE CVEs; GraalVM 25.1 with 3% native image size reduction and G1 GC support on macOS AArch64; Micronaut Framework 5.0.3 maintenance release; Open Liberty 26.0.0.7 beta with Jakarta Data 1.1-M3 support; JReleaser 1.25.0 with multi-format archive support; Apache Grails 8.0.0-M2 milestone; RefactorFirst 0.9.0 with OO disharmony detectors; and Java Operator SDK 5.4.0 with shard selector support.
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