New WildFly 37 Beta release

By Darran Lofthouse | June 26, 2025

We’re excited to announce the release of WildFly 37.0.0.Beta1! This beta release, available for download from https://wildfly.org/downloads, includes new features and several enhancements, alongside numerous component upgrades.

Key Highlights in this Beta Release:

New Features:

  • Artemis commit-interval attribute for scaledown: WildFly 37 Beta 1 exposes the Artemis commit-interval attribute for scaledown.

  • The /core-service=platform-mbean resources have been evolved to expose new platform MXBeans, attributes and operations.

Enhancements:

  • The tasks-jsf quickstart now uses Glow.

  • GPG detached signatures are now included with uploads at release time.

The following commands demonstrate how to verify the GPG signature of the WildFly distribution:

$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E85C11F6
$ gpg --verify wildfly-37.0.0.Beta1-src.tar.gz.asc wildfly-37.0.0.Beta1-src.tar.gz
gpg: Signature made Wed 25 Jun 2025 14:33:44 BST
gpg:                using EDDSA key 245404A11575A55D6A41107E2D52D4ACE85C11F6
gpg: Good signature from "Darran Andrew Lofthouse <darran.lofthouse@jboss.com>" [unknown]
gpg:                 aka "Darran Andrew Lofthouse <darran.lofthouse@redhat.com>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 2454 04A1 1575 A55D 6A41  107E 2D52 D4AC E85C 11F6

Contributors to WildFly publish their GPG keys on the Contributor PGP Information, which includes the fingerprint to aid verification.

Component Upgrades:

This release includes a significant number of component upgrades, ensuring WildFly remains current with the latest technologies and provides improved performance and security. Some notable upgrades include:

  • Vert.x to 4.5.15.

  • Hibernate ORM to 6.6.18.Final (and 7.0.2.Final for WildFly Preview).

  • Micrometer to 1.15.0.

  • EclipseLink to 4.0.6.

  • SmallRye Fault Tolerance to 6.9.1.

  • Apache Santuario XML Security for Java to 3.0.6.

  • JBoss Universe Producers to 1.3.14.

  • JBoss Metadata to 16.1.0.Final.

  • Netty to 4.1.122.Final.

  • Velocity Engine to 2.4.1.

  • WildFly Clustering to 7.0.5.Final.

  • Infinispan to 15.2.4.Final.

  • JGroups to 5.4.

  • Apache Artemis to 2.41.0.

  • WildFly Core to 29.0.0.Beta6.

  • HAL to 3.7.12.Final.

  • Byteman to 4.0.25.

  • JBossWS-CXF to 7.3.3.Final.

  • Narayana to 7.2.2.Final.

  • zstd-jni to 1.5.7-3.

  • WildFly Licenses Plugin to 2.4.2.Final.

  • FasterXML Jackson to 2.18.4.

  • SmallRye Common to 2.12.0.

  • Hibernate Search to 8.0.0.Final (in WildFly preview).

  • Weld to 5.1.6.Final and 6.0.3.Final.

  • Hibernate Validator to 9.0.1.Final (in WildFly preview).

  • Expressly to 6.0.0 (in WildFly preview).

  • Apache CXF to 4.0.8.

  • Commons-Beanutils to 1.11.0, which resolves CVE-2025-48734.

  • WildFly Channel Maven Plugin to 1.0.25.

  • WildFly HTTP Client to 2.1.1.Final.

  • Narayana LRA to 1.0.1.Final.

  • Arquillian BOM to 1.9.5.Final.

  • Arquillian Testcontainers to 1.0.0.Alpha4.

  • Caffeine to 3.2.1.

  • Apache Kafka to 3.9.1.

  • SmallRye OpenAPI to 4.0.11.

  • Nimbus Jose JWT to 10.3.

  • Artemis WildFly Integration to 2.0.4.Final.

  • MVC Krazo integration to 2.0.0.Final.

  • OWASP Dependency Check Plugin to 12.1.3.

For a complete list of bug fixes, tasks, sub-tasks, and other changes, please refer to the full release notes. We encourage the community to test this beta release and provide feedback to help us stabilize WildFly 37.

WildFly is fully open. All components are open source and follow a community-focused development process.

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