GraalVM Community Release Calendar

This page describes the release model and update cadence of GraalVM Community.

Annual Release

Each calendar year follows a release schedule with the numbering pattern 19.x, 20.x, 21.x, 22.x., 23.x, and so on.

Feature Release

Prior to 2023, feature releases of GraalVM Community were on a three-month cadence (on the Tuesday closest to the 17th of the months of January, April, July, and October).

Starting with the JDK 20 release in 2023, GraalVM Community Editions will align with the six-month JDK release cadence. There will be two feature releases per year to support the latest JDK version. A new feature release supersedes all previous releases.

Critical Patch Update (CPU)

Critical Patch Updates (CPU) of GraalVM Community are based on the final GA-tagged OpenJDK CPU changes and will become available shortly after the OpenJDK CPU. There will be four CPU releases per year.

Planned Releases #

Date	Type	Version
June 13, 2023	Feature	GraalVM for JDK 17 (23.0.0), GraalVM for JDK 20 (23.0.0)
July 25, 2023	CPU	22.3.3, GraalVM for JDK 17 (23.0.1), GraalVM for JDK 20 (23.0.1)
September 19, 2023	Feature	GraalVM for JDK 21 (23.1.0)
October 24, 2023	CPU	GraalVM for JDK 17 (23.0.2), GraalVM for JDK 21 (23.1.1)
January 23, 2024	CPU	GraalVM for JDK 21 (23.1.2)
March 19, 2024	Feature	GraalVM for JDK 22 (24.0.0)
April 23, 2024	CPU	GraalVM for JDK 22 (24.0.1)
July 16, 2024	CPU	GraalVM for JDK 22 (24.0.2)

Previous Releases #

Date	Type	Version
April 25, 2023	CPU	22.3.2
January 24, 2023	CPU	22.3.1
October 25, 2022	Feature	22.3.0
July 26, 2022	Feature, CPU	22.2.0, 21.3.3
April 26, 2022	Feature, CPU	22.1.0, 21.3.2, 20.3.6
January 25, 2022	Feature, CPU	22.0.0, 21.3.1, 20.3.5
October 19, 2021	Feature, CPU	21.3.0, 20.3.4
July 20, 2021	Feature, CPU	21.2.0, 20.3.3
April 20, 2021	Feature, CPU	21.1.0, 20.3.2, 19.3.6
January 19, 2021	Feature, CPU	21.0.0, 20.3.1, 19.3.5
November 17, 2020	Feature	20.3.0
October 20, 2020	CPU	20.2.1, 19.3.4
August 18, 2020	Feature	20.2.0
July 14, 2020	CPU	20.1.1, 19.3.3
May 19, 2020	Feature	20.1.0
April 14, 2020	CPU	20.0.1, 19.3.2
February 18, 2020	Feature	20.0.0
January 14, 2020	CPU	19.3.1
November 19, 2019	Feature	19.3.0
October 15, 2019	CPU	19.2.1
August 20, 2019	Feature	19.2.0
July 16, 2019	CPU	19.1.1
June 11, 2019	Feature	19.1.0
May 9, 2019	Early Access	19.0.0

The release schedule for GraalVM Enterprise can be found here.

For Contributors #

Consult the GraalVM Community Roadmap on GitHub to discover what features are currently in development as well as what to expect from upcoming releases. Items on the roadmap are sorted by focus area and labels, and represented by GitHub issues that typically include goals, non-goals, and additional details.

For information about the development cycle and feature freeze dates, please refer to this GitHub discussion: #3509 - Development schedule.