Java roundup: TornadoVM 7.0, Groovy 6.0, GraalVM, Quarkus, Maven 4.0

TornadoVM 7.0 and Groovy 6.0 reached GA, while GraalVM 25.4 and Gradle shipped point releases and Quarkus 3.39.5 resolved 32 CVEs. JEP 544 for ahead-of-time code compilation was elevated to Proposed to Target for JDK 28, and Maven 4.0 entered its seventh release candidate.

• TornadoVM 7.0 adds a TileContext class for writing GPU kernels in Java
• Groovy 6.0 speeds up lexer and parser with DFA instead of regex predicates
• Quarkus 3.39.5 resolves 32 CVEs, backported to the 3.33 and 3.37 trains
• JEP 544 for ahead-of-time compilation targets JDK 28, review ends September 28