Apache TomEE 11.0.0-M1 Targets Jakarta EE 11 and MicroProfile 7.1
The Apache TomEE project has published its first milestone release toward TomEE 11.0, adding support for Jakarta EE 11 and MicroProfile 7.1. This is the initial preview build in the 11.0 line, and it is intended for evaluation rather than production use — the TomEE team is soliciting feedback on the Jakarta EE 11 upgrade path before locking in the GA release.
Beyond the platform-version bump, 11.0.0-M1 improves deployment diagnostics: the server console and logs now display the actual bean names sourced from ejb-jar.xml instead of generated identifiers, which should make debugging deployment failures in EJB-heavy applications noticeably less painful. TomEE remains one of the few certified full-profile Jakarta EE servers still under active development outside the commercial application server vendors, so a Jakarta EE 11 milestone is a meaningful signal for teams tracking the broader Jakarta EE 11 rollout across the ecosystem.
Teams running production TomEE deployments on Jakarta EE 10 should treat this milestone purely as a preview: expect API surface and configuration changes before the eventual 11.0.0 GA, and plan migration testing accordingly once a release candidate appears.
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Commonhaus Foundation Welcomes OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and SQLDelight
The Commonhaus Foundation, a vendor-neutral home for open-source Java and JVM projects, has added four widely used libraries to its portfolio: OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and SQLDelight. All four transition from Block's internal governance model to Commonhaus's foundation structure, which provides shared legal, financial, and organizational infrastructure for open-source maintainers without requiring them to incorporate their own nonprofit.
For the huge number of Android and JVM backend projects that depend on Square's/Block's networking and database stack — OkHttp for HTTP clients, Retrofit for declarative REST APIs, Okio for efficient I/O, and SQLDelight for typesafe SQL — this move reduces bus-factor risk. Governance moving to a neutral foundation means continuity is no longer tied to a single company's internal priorities, which matters for any team treating these libraries as long-term dependencies in production Android apps or Spring/Micronaut backends that use OkHttp under the hood (as Retrofit-based clients commonly do).
This continues a broader trend of company-maintained Java infrastructure libraries moving to neutral foundation governance, following similar moves by other widely used JVM tooling projects earlier in 2026.
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