This week’s Java news roundup features news from OpenJDK promoting JEP 411 to Candidate status, Kotlin 1.5.0-RC, Piranha Cloud 21.4.0, Weld CDI point releases, CloudBees releasing Jenkins X 3.0, numerous Spring project-related point releases and release candidates, and a new Atlassian JIRA command-line utility introduced by David Blevins.

It was a very quiet week for OpenJDK JEPs as only one: JEP 411, Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal, had been promoted to Candidate status. This deprecates the Security Manager for removal in a future release. For many years, the Security Manager has not been the primary means of securing client-side Java code and has rarely been used to secure server-side code. The intent is to deprecate the Security Manager, introduced in Java 1.0, for removal in conjunction with JEP 398, Deprecate the Applet API for Removal. There were concerns within the Java community as this could have a significant effect on the future development of Jakarta EE. As mentioned in the risks and assumptions section of JEP 411:

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