This is the first major release targeting Jakarta EE 8, Java SE 8/11, Payara 5. It adopts a number of new features such as Java SE streams, lambdas, repeatable annotations, the date-time API, async CDI events, JSON binding, Server-Sent Events and JPA second-level caching.
Release Date:
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Release Type:
Major release (API breakage)