Working Group Status Report (November 2025)

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Working Group activities from 2025-10-25 to 2025-11-24

New working groups

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• WG - Agentic Foundation and LangChain4j Next
• WG - Quarkus 3.27 LTS

Completed working groups

These working groups are now completed.

• WG - Gizmo 2
• WG - Quarkus 3.15 LTS
• WG - Offering Metadata and Tooling Integration

Latest updates

🟢 WG - Java 25 support

In the last month, the WG - Java 25 support did not close any issues but opened a new issue focused on providing container images for Java 25. This activity aligns with the group's objective of ensuring Quarkus applications can run seamlessly across various modes on Java 25, without requiring it as a baseline.
The container image should be available in November.

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🟢 WG - Agentic Foundation and LangChain4j Next

WG Started.

Quarkus Langchain4J will serve as the main repository for issues and work items.

🟢 WG - Chappie

In the past month, the WG - Chappie closed one issue focused on investigating how MCP can be utilized. This progress supports the group's goal of integrating AI features into Quarkus Dev Mode, enhancing both the Dev UI and CLI. The working group is now shifting towards the documentation ingestion and aggregation.

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🟢 WG - Observability.Next

In the last month, the WG - Observability.Next successfully closed an issue focused on documentation regarding the interaction with the OpenTelemetry collector. This progress contributes to the ongoing efforts to enhance the observability stack within the Quarkus framework, aligning with the group's goal to better monitor and manage distributed systems.

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🟢 WG - OIDC improvements

In the last month, the WG - OIDC improvements closed one issue that allowed for configuring Cache-Control when OIDC session cookies are created.

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🟢 WG - Quarkus to the CommonHaus Foundation

DNS names have now been migrated to CommonHaus.
There are still many tasks to finalize the move, but we are going there smoothly.

🟢 WG - Test classloading

In the past month, the WG - Test classloading closed two significant issues: support for simplified constructor injection in QuarkusComponentTest and resolving the service configuration error in camel-quarkus-integration-test-sql. No new issues were opened, indicating the near completion of the working group.

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🟢 WG - Spring-Style Testing

In the last month, the WG - Spring-Style Testing successfully closed one issue, which involved adding a spring-test module to Quarkus core. This addition aims to enhance compatibility for Spring developers migrating to Quarkus, allowing them to leverage familiar testing patterns without having to rewrite their existing tests.

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🟢 WG - Panache.Next

In the last month, the WG - Panache.Next did not close any issues but opened one to address the acceptance of null persistence units (PUs) in ORM and HR Panache. This highlights ongoing efforts to refine the next version of Panache, focusing on improving functionality and stability as the group progresses towards its development goals.

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🟢 WG - Quarkus 4

In the last month, the WG - Quarkus 4 did not close any issues but opened a new issue focused on improving the Event bus. Remember that this working group is about collecting features for Quarkus 4.
On the technical side, we made progress on the Mutiny Bindings for Vert.x 5.

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Detailed activity

WG - Java 25 support

New items

• More strongly encourage users to enable Maven extensions
• Disable the nagging about sun.misc.Unsafe in dev-mode as well
• Use Mandrel 25.0 as the default native image builder
• guice Warning with Java 25

Completed items

• More strongly encourage users to enable Maven extensions
• Disable the nagging about sun.misc.Unsafe in dev-mode as well
• Java 24 - java.lang.IllegalAccessError on shutdown
• guice Warning with Java 25

WG - Agentic Foundation and LangChain4j Next

New items

• Agentic - Developer Model Simplification
• Agentic Architectural Refactoring
• Agentic - Invocation Model Enhancements
• A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Improvements
• Agentic - LangChain4j Core Improvements
• Agentic - Developer Experience & Tooling
• Improve Cost Tracking & Observability
• Agentic - Workflow Integration

Completed items

• Agentic Architectural Refactoring

WG - Gizmo 2

Completed items

• Add implementation document which describes the instruction list mechanism
• Investigate flattening Node into Item
• Cleanup: make atomic operations be a property of the item
• Is UncheckedCast always needed

WG - Chappie

New items

• Allow embedding from other libraries like Hibernate, SmallRye etc.

WG - Quarkus 3.15 LTS

Completed items

• [3.15] Use Stork 2.6.3

WG - Observability.Next

Completed items

• Doc about the interaction with the OpenTelemetry collector

WG - Offering Metadata and Tooling Integration

Completed items

• Expanding notion of *-support to capture different offerings
• Override the maven repository based on the offering

WG - OIDC improvements

New items

• Support method-level @OidcClientFilter bindings

Completed items

• OIDC Client Token Propagation - Allowing @AccessToken per method
• Support method-level @OidcClientFilter bindings

Paused working groups

• WG - Quarkus Config and IDEs
• WG - Docker file generation

Completed working groups

• WG - Gizmo 2 (2025-11-03)
• WG - Quarkus 3.15 LTS (2025-11-03)
• WG - Offering Metadata and Tooling Integration (2025-11-03)
• WG - Roq :: Quarkus SSG (2024-11-18)
• WG - WebSocket Next (2024-12-16)
• WG - Enhanced TLS support (2024-09-29)