Helidon 3.0.0-M1 Release!

We are happy to announce that Helidon 3.0.0-M1 is released! This is the first milestone release of Helidon 3.0. It contains significant new features, enhancements and fixes. It also contains backward incompatible changes.

This milestone release is provided for customers that want early access to Helidon 3.0 for experimentation. It should be considered unstable and is not intended for production use. APIs and features might not be fully implemented and tested and are subject to change.

What’s new

• MicroProfile 5.0 support
• javax to jakarta Java package namespace change for Jakarta EE 9 APIs
• Java 11 no longer supported. Java 17 or newer is required.

Compatibility

3.0.0-M1 contains the following incompatibilities with 2.x:

• Java 17 or newer is required
• Java package namespace for Jakarta APIs has changed from javax to jakarta

By the way, Verrazzano, a sister technology to Helidon, recently released a new version. More info you can find here: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/verrazzano-1-2

To see Verrazzano and Helidon in action with their recent new features, register for the Java Innovations Developer Live event.

Enjoy!