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2025 was a year of growth, collaboration, and communication. This was a year marked not just by technical milestones, but by the deepening relationships with our community, the exceptional work of everyone at BellSoft, and the collaborative spirit of our partners. To our team, our partners, and everyone in the Java community who has been part of this journey: thank you. Your expertise, feedback, and collaboration have been the foundation of everything we've achieved this year.

Alpaquita Linux 25 is a Long-Term Support version that will receive updates for four years. Learn more about important changes and improvements in this release.

Download Liberica JDK versions 8, 11, 17, 21, and 25 with important patches and fixes

Learn how to secure Docker container images: minimal base images, non-root containers, SBOM, provenance attestation, and host hardening. Get practical tips.

New Liberica NIK versions 23.0.10, 23.1.9, and 25.0.1 include several important fixes in the JDK.

Download Liberica JDK CPU versions 8, 11, 17, 21, and 25 with improved security.

A step-by-step tutorial on setting up Flyway in a Spring Boot application with PostgreSQL and Maven.

New Liberica NIK version 25.0.0+1 includes several important fixes in the JDK.

Download the Liberica JDK 25 builds and switch from Oracle Java to OpenJDK.

A step-by-step tutorial on setting up Liquibase in a Spring Boot application with PostgreSQL and Maven. Covers changelogs, changesets, preconditions, rollbacks, diffs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Learn about implementing a DTO pattern in Spring Boot with Java records. Master manual and automated mapping, projections, and other ways of retrieving data from the db

BellSoft adopts OSV schema for Alpaquita Linux Stream/LTS, enabling standardized vulnerability reporting and seamless security tool integration.

When the legacy system doesn't meet modern prformance requirements and JDK upgrade is not coming soon, Liberica JDK Performance Edition enables a performance boost without code refactoring.

New Liberica NIK versions 23.0.9, 23.1.8, and 24.2.2 include several important fixes in the JDK.

Download Liberica JDK CPU versions 8, 11, 17, 21, and 24 with improved security.

An end-to-end tutorial on using MongoD with Spring Boot: setup, CRUD operations, custom queries, aggregation pipelines, Mongock migrations, testing

The BellSoft engineers reminiscent about their journey with Java

New Liberica NIK versions 23.0.8, 23.1.7, and 24.2.1 include several important fixes in the JDK.

Learn how to build modern desktop applications using JavaFX and Spring Boot. Step-by-step guide with practical examples, UI design tips, and backend integration.

Download Liberica JDK CPU versions 8, 11, 17, 21, and 24 with improved security.

Learn how to compile JavaFX applications into native executables using GraalVM. Step-by-step guide, metadata setup, and GitHub Actions automation.

Find out about enhancements in Liberica Native Image Kit 24.2.0 and downloads new builds

Learn about ways of contributing to OpenJDK and the process of integrating changes to the API.