The October 2025 release brings focused improvements across Payara Platform Community 6.2025.10 (download here), Payara Platform Enterprise 6.31.0 (download trial here), and Enterprise 5.80.0. This month’s updates center on deployment flexibility, admin interface performance, and stability fixes that address several long-standing issues.
Deployment Enhancements
Warlibs Support for Remote Archives
Community Edition 6.2025.10 extends the warlibs functionality to the deploy-remote-archive command. This improvement allows applications deployed from remote locations to take advantage of shared library directories, reducing deployment package sizes and improving deployment speed across distributed environments.
Cache Time-To-Live Configuration
All editions now support configurable cache time-to-live settings for application deployments, thanks to community contributor Lenny Primak. This addition provides fine-grained control over how long deployment artifacts remain cached, allowing teams to optimize memory usage and deployment behavior for their specific requirements.
Critical Bug Fixes
Domain Configuration Stability
A significant issue where saving batch settings for Payara Server instances created duplicate domain.xml entries has been resolved. These duplicates prevented server startup, causing disruption in environments where batch job settings were modified. This fix ensures clean configuration updates across all server management operations.
Admin Interface Performance
The admin interface now responds normally when managing degraded server instances. Previously, administrators experienced slow response times when interacting with instances in degraded states, hampering troubleshooting efforts during critical situations. This improvement restores efficient management capabilities regardless of instance health.
Deserialization Compatibility
Payara 5.69+ experienced breaking changes when applications enabled Jackson’s FAIL_ON_TRAILING_TOKENS feature. This release restores proper deserialization behavior, ensuring applications can enforce strict JSON parsing without encountering unexpected failures.
JavaMail Session Lookup
JNDI lookups for local JavaMail sessions now work correctly. This fix resolves authentication and connection issues for applications relying on locally configured email sessions, particularly important for notification systems and automated reporting functions.
Phone Home Identifier Generation
The Phone Home feature no longer generates duplicate installation identifiers. This correction ensures accurate telemetry data and prevents confusion when tracking Payara Platform deployments across your infrastructure.
Component Upgrades
All editions received comprehensive component updates to maintain security and compatibility. Notable upgrades include
- EclipseLink to 4.0.7 (Payara 6) and 2.7.16 (Payara 5),
- Jersey to 3.1.11 (Payara 6) and 2.47 (Payara 5), and Jackson BOM to 2.20.0.
- Jakarta API updates include Mail API 2.1.5, Activation API 2.1.4, and XML Bind API 4.0.4.
- Infrastructure components like Reactor Core (3.7.11), Nimbus JOSE JWT (10.5), and Apache Felix Web Console (5.0.18) received updates across all editions.
- Development tools including JLine (3.30.6), Kotlin Stdlib (2.2.20), and JNA (5.18.1) were also upgraded.
For complete details on all component upgrades, refer to the Release Notes – Enterprise & Community.
Special thanks to Lenny Primak for implementing the cache time-to-live configuration feature. Community contributions continue driving Payara Platform forward with practical enhancements that benefit production deployments.
Get Started Today
- For Production Environments: Payara Platform Enterprise provides comprehensive support and guaranteed stability for mission-critical applications.
- For Development Teams: Payara Community Edition offers a feature-rich platform for development and testing environments.
Upgrading
We recommend upgrading to these latest releases to benefit from the domain configuration stability fixes, admin interface performance improvements, and component updates. The batch settings fix alone makes this upgrade important for environments using batch job processing.
For detailed upgrade instructions, please visit our official documentation.
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