What's New in the Payara Platform May 2025 Release?

The May 2025 release brings updates across Payara Platform Community 6.2025.5, Payara Platform Enterprise 6.26.0 and 5.75.0. These focus on bug fixes and component upgrades. Let's have a closer look at what you can find in this release. 

New Features

• Master Password Mobility: Added capability to move master password file to a user defined location for Payara Server Enterprise 5.75.0, 6.26.0 and Community 6.2025.5.

Bug Fixes

• Custom Error Page Configuration: Fixed custom error page configs not working for Payara Micro across all editions
• X509Certificate Fix: Resolved jakarta.servlet.request.X509Certificate request attribute yielding NULL on version 6 of Payara Platform Community and Enterprise

Component Upgrades

• ASM Library: Upgraded from 9.7.1 to 9.8 across all editions
• Exousia: Updated from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3 for version 6 of Payara Platform Community and Enterprise 

What These Changes Mean for You

• Developers: Benefit from smoother deployments, fewer runtime issues and up-to-date dependencies, reducing technical debt and security risks.

• System Administrators: Improved error page handling and SSL attribute reliability simplify troubleshooting and compliance.

• Enterprise Customers: Continued access to the latest patches and component upgrades ensures mission-critical applications remain stable and secure.

We recommend upgrading to these latest releases to benefit from the bug fixes and component upgrades. For more details and a complete list of changes, visit the official Payara Platform documentation and release notes:

Important Notice: Payara Platform Enterprise 4 End of Life

Payara Platform Enterprise 4 has reached End of Life. Unless customers have secured Lifetime Support, they will continue to have access to existing binaries but won't receive new releases or updates.

End of Life Policy Details:

• Support: Non-Lifetime support users cannot raise tickets against version 4 since end of March 2024
• Binaries Access: Customers can continue accessing existing binaries in Nexus, but no new updates will be provided
• New Patches: Only Lifetime Support customers receive new patches, accessible via dedicated Nexus repositories.
• Documentation: Payara Server 4 documentation remains available in the community repository
• Lifetime Support: Customers with Lifetime Support retain access to critical security updates and on-demand bug fixes.

If you are still using Payara Platform Enterprise 4, upgrade to the latest versions to maintain support, receive security updates and take advantage of new features and improvements. To learn if version 5 or 6 are best suited to address your specific applications, check this blog post. For migration guidance, refer to the official documentation or contact our support team.

Happy deploying!