This week's Java roundup for September 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 25 and GraalVM for JDK 25; new JEP candidates and JEPs targeted for JDK 26; point releases of Quarkus, the A2A Java SDK, Apache TomEE, LangChain4j and Gradle; the second alpha release of Hibernate Validator 9.1; and Oracle detaching GraalVM from the Java release train. By Michael Redlich