What’s New in Payara Platform – April 2025 Release Highlights

The April 2025 Payara Platform release is here, bringing key performance upgrades, enhanced log customization, and essential component updates across all editions. This month's releases include Payara Platform Community 6.2025.4, Payara Platform Enterprise 6.25.0 and Payara Platform Enterprise 5.74.0.

Let’s break down what’s new.

Key Highlights Across All Editions

All three editions share the following major improvements:

• Remote Syslog Server Log Customization: You can now customize logs sent to remote Syslog servers, giving you more control over your log management.
• Connection Pool Enhancement: Added a connection pool property to disable the verification of client info properties when pooling is set to false.

Payara Platform Community 6.2025.4 & Enterprise 6.25.0

Both the Community and Enterprise 6 editions include important version bumps for core dependencies, offering new functionalities while improving performance and security:

Component Upgrades

• Tyrus updated to 2.1.5
• Nimbus JOSE JWT updated from 9.47 to 10.0.2
• GlassFish External Management API updated from 3.2.3.payara-p1 to 3.3.0.payara-p1
• Reactor Core updated from 3.7.3 to 3.7.4
• JNA updated from 5.16.0 to 5.17.0
• Kotlin Stdlib updated from 2.1.10 to 2.1.20
• Jersey updated to 3.1.10

Payara Platform Enterprise 5.74.0

Targeting long-term stability, Payara Platform Enterprise 5.74.0 continues to support Jakarta EE 8 and MicroProfile 4.1, helping organizations that need to prioritize older applications and backward compatibility. The latest release features:

Component Upgrades

• Reactor Core updated from 3.7.3 to 3.7.4

Upgrade Now

We recommend upgrading to these latest releases to benefit from the improved log customization, connection pool enhancements, and updated components. For detailed information about these releases and upgrade instructions, visit our official documentation:

• Payara Platform Community 6.2025.3 Release Notes
• Payara Platform Enterprise 6.25 Release Notes
• Payara Platform Enterprise 5.74 Release Notes

As always, we welcome your feedback and encourage you to report any issues on our GitHub repository. Happy deploying!