Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

There was good progress this week in getting the release reviews for Jakarta EE 11 specifications underway. Nine specifications have been approved, five are under review, and two are ready and waiting for the Jakarta EE Specification Committee to get the ballots going.

Done:
– Jakarta Annotations 3.0
– Jakarta Authorization 3.0
– Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1
– Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
– Jakarta Interceptors 2.2
– Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0
– Jakarta Persistence 3.2
– Jakarta Validation 3.1
– Jakarta WebSocket 2.2

In progress:
– Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
– Jakarta Data 1.0
– Jakarta Faces 4.1
– Jakarta Pages 4.0
– Jakarta Servlet 6.1

About to start:
– Jakarta Authentication 3.1
– Jakarta Security 4.0

I want to remind you about the advantages of submitting early to conference CFPs especially if they have an early-bird acceptance deadline, like Open Community for Java does.

The past week, I spoke at the Berlin JUG in Berlin (I know, no surprise there). Next week is a little busier with two conferences on the agenda. First, I will go to Sofia, Bulgaria to speak at JPrime 2024. Then I will continue to Barcelona, Spain for Spring I/O 2024.