Release-window for Jakarta EE11 - support

[christophs78]

There happend a good amount of work on Jakarta EE11 - Features. (eg #25086)
There are OpenLiberty - Beta - Releases for Jakarta EE11 but no final release yet.

My organization runs Spring Boot applications on OpenLiberty. SpringBoot 3.5 has EOL with 06/2026. So we need to move on to Spring Boot 4. For this we need a release - version of OpenLiberty with Jakarta EE11 / Servlet 6.1. - support.

Can you please give some indication on a release-window of final (non - beta) - support for Jakarta EE 11?

[jhanders34]

Jakarta EE 11 development is nearing completion and we plan to have something available in the coming months after we get through all of our quality assurance checks. At the same time that Jakarta EE 11 support is made generally available, the Spring Boot 4.0 support that is also currently in beta will be made generally available if all quality assurance checks are complete.

Until that time, the beta images include both functions and we will gladly take any feedback you have on these features.