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

All the specifications that will be part of Jakarta EE 11 have passed their release review and have been, or are in the process of being released. The efforts are now on finalizing the TCK and wrapping up the changes needed in the Jakarta EE Platform, Web Profile, and Core Profile specifications.

– Jakarta Annotations 3.0
– Jakarta Authentication 3.1
– Jakarta Authorization 3.0
– Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
– Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1
– Jakarta Data 1.0
– Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
– Jakarta Faces 4.1
– Jakarta Interceptors 2.2
– Jakarta Pages 4.0
– Jakarta Persistence 3.2
– Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0
– Jakarta Security 4.0
– Jakarta Servlet 6.1
– Jakarta Validation 3.1
– Jakarta WebSocket 2.2

Now that all the specifications for Jakarta EE 11 are done, the specification projects are starting to look ahead to Jakarta EE 12 and how to further evolve the specifications. It is great to see the individual projects taking the initiative this way.

This week was dedicated to the Eclipse Foundation All Hands 2024. In the upcoming week, I will be at home before I go to Nürnberg to speak at Developer Week in the first week of July.