Native Image Committer and Community Meeting 2025-09-25

[wirthi]

List of all past and upcoming meetings: #3933

The meeting after this one is the GraalVM Community Summit in Zurich in October 2025 (there will be no online meeting in October). In November, we will have our meeting one week earlier than usual, on November 20th, in order not to collide with Thanksgiving.

New and Noteworthy

• General
  GraalVM Community Summit 22.-23. October 2025 in Zurich

• Native Image Layers

• Crema

• Streamline reachability metadata

Note: please try (and test) your projects with --future-defaults=all. If need be adjust your framework with the following system properties: org.graalvm.nativeimage.future-defaults.complete-reflection-types,org.graalvm.nativeimage.future-defaults.run-time-initialize-file-system-providers, org.graalvm.nativeimage.future-defaults.run-time-initialize-security-providers.

• Usability

• Monitoring / Tooling

• Debugging

• FFM API / Panama

• Garbage Collector / Memory Management
  Experimental in-place compacting garbage collection for the Serial GC old generation with -H:+CompactingOldGen.

• Other & fixes

Questions

Deep Dive: TBD