Quarkus 3.37 - Extension-based modularity, Hibernate ORM 7.4, Jackson reflection-free serializers, and more
Quarkus 3.37 has been released with several notable improvements. A new experimental quarkus-jlink extension enables extension-based modularity by producing jlink-ed custom runtime images that include only required JDK modules, reducing container image sizes. Hibernate ORM is bumped to 7.4 (with behavioral changes including SQL-level pagination limits, new NOT NULL constraints on timestamp columns, and PostgreSQL 14 minimum), Hibernate Reactive to 3.4, and Hibernate Search to 8.4. Jackson reflection-free serializers are now enabled by default for improved serialization performance. The REST Client gains RestMultiResponse for extracting status codes and headers from streamed responses. A new quarkus-rest-data-hibernate-types extension is added for better REST and Hibernate ORM integration.