• Original Plan vs Actual Delivery: Originally planned for a full GA release of Jakarta EE 11 in July 2024, only the Core Profile and the Web Profile were delivered in December 2024 and April 2025 respectively. 34 months after the release of Jakarta EE 10, the Eclipse Foundation officially announced the release of Jakarta EE 11 including the Jakarta EE 11 Platform.
• Work on Jakarta EE 11: By May 2024, after 16 updated specifications for Jakarta EE 11 passed reviews and TCKs, the Jakarta EE Working Group focused on modernizing and restructuring the Technology Compatibility Kit. OpenRewrite was used for migrations of build tools and test suites.
• Jakarta EE 11 Platform: Defines a standard platform for hosting Jakarta EE applications, with included specifications shown in a diagram.
• Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile: Defines a subset for web applications with included specifications shown in a diagram. Released in April 2025 with Eclipse GlassFish 8.0.0-M11 as the compatible implementation.
• Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile: Introduced in Jakarta EE 10, defines a subset for microservices and ahead-of-time compilation. With only seven specifications, it was the first to be released in December 2024. WildFly Preview 34.0.0 and Open Liberty 2024.0.0.11-beta submitted compatibility certification requests.
• Updated Specifications: 16 of the 42 specifications in the Jakarta EE ecosystem have been updated for Jakarta EE 11. There were name changes for Jakarta Validation and Jakarta Pages. Jakarta Server Faces was renamed to Jakarta Faces with Jakarta EE 10.
• New Specification - Jakarta Data 1.0: Provides an API for easy database access with current implementations like Hibernate ORM 6.6.0, Eclipse JNoSQL 1.1.4 and Open Liberty 24.0.0.6.
• Other Notable Changes: Support for Java Records in multiple specifications, Virtual Threads in Jakarta Concurrency specification, CDI Lite specification, removal of optional features from some specifications, and removal of references to the Java [SecurityManager](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/24/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/SecurityManager.html) and the legacy [@MangedBean](https://jakarta.ee/specifications/faces/3.0/apidocs/jakarta/faces/bean/managedbean) annotation.
• Reflections: Ed Burns said Jakarta EE 11 shows adding new technologies and paying down technical debt. Steve Millidge described Jakarta EE 11 as a potential "first big leap" and an opportunity to leverage new Java capabilities. More details on Jakarta EE 11 features can be found in an Eclipse Foundation blog post by Tanja Obradovic.