Helidon 4.4.0 Released

The Helidon team is pleased to announce the release of Helidon 4.4.0 , a feature-rich release delivering significant announcements, upgrades and new features across three areas: Java alignment : OpenJDK cadence alignment, commercial support via Oracle’s Java Verified Portfolio (JVP) , adoption of Tip and Tail as release model, and early work aligned with Project Leyden (AOT cache) New core Helidon capabilities : expanded declarative APIs, Helidon JSON , OpenTelemetry metrics and logs , and new rate limits AI features : agentic support for LangChain4j, enhanced LangChain4j integration, and MCP