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What ships in Azul Payara 7 today

Azul Payara 7 and Azul Payara Micro 7 are generally available as of May 2026. Azul Payara Server 7 is the first commercially supported Jakarta EE 11 runtime certified across all three profiles (Full Platform, Web Profile, and Core Profile) at GA. Bui...

Your application may already be compromised. You just don’t know it yet.

For years, the security industry operated on a comfortable assumption: if you patched within 30 days of a CVE publication, you were reasonably protected. That assumption is no longer valid. AI-powered security tools can now find and weaponize vulnerabilities faste...

There has never been a more urgent moment to get your Java house in order. Enterprise Java is being squeezed between a rock (AI demands) and a hard place (the high and rising cost of Oracle Java licenses). Something has to give.

From Licensing Changes to AI, Java...

Thinking about upgrading to JDK 25?

Azul’s Performance Engineering Lab tested the code speed of Azul Prime’s Zing distribution and other OpenJDK distributions in the market, using Java 11.0.30 as a baseline. Azul’s benchmarks measure overall code speed, and are not limited to only garba...

May 2026 marks the largest release in Payara’s history: Azul Payara Server 7 and Azul Payara Micro 7 are now generally available, certified against Jakarta EE 11 – the first commercially supported Jakarta EE 11 runtimes from a major enterprise vendor, and part of a broader story about what Azul is building for enterprise Java.