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It’s safe to say March was defined by one thing: Java 26. In this issue of Java Annotated Monthly, we’ve curated a rich selection of articles to help you get the full picture of the release. Marit van Dijk<\/a> joins us as the featured guest author, bringing her expertise to help you navigate the changes with confidence. Alongside our Java 26 coverage, you’ll find our regular roundup of AI developments, Spring updates, Kotlin news, industry trends, and community reads that caught our eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marit van Dijk<\/h4>\n

Marit van Dijk is a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains with over 20 years of software development experience. She\u2019s passionate about building great software with great people, and making developers\u2019 lives easier.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

Marit regularly presents at international conferences and shares her expertise through webinars, podcasts, blog posts, videos, and tutorials. She\u2019s also a contributor to the book 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know<\/em><\/a> (O\u2019Reilly Media).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March held a lot of interesting things for Java. First of all, there was the Java 26 release on March 17. You can read all about Java 26 in IntelliJ IDEA <\/a>on the blog, and find more links on Java 26 in the Java sections below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in March, JavaOne took place in Redwood Shores, USA. During the community keynote, our colleague Anton Arhipov talked about 25 years of IntelliJ IDEA<\/a>. In case you missed it, we also did a Duke\u2019s Corner podcast<\/a> and a Foojay podcast <\/a>on the same topic. And of course, the IntelliJ IDEA documentary<\/a> was released this month. Also at JavaOne, we announced that Koog is coming to Java<\/a>, if you want to try JetBrains\u2019 Koog<\/a> AI agent with Java instead of Kotlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1 was just released. Of course we have Java 26 support from day one, as well as improvements to the debugger for virtual threads, support for new Kotlin features, Spring Data and Spring Debugger features, new AI features, and more. You can read all about it on the blog<\/a> or watch our release video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The release of Java 26 also means that Piotr Przyby\u0142 and I updated our talk, Learning modern Java the playful way<\/em><\/a>, for Java 26. You can watch the recording from Voxxed Days Amsterdam<\/a>, or catch us at multiple events<\/a> around Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out all the Java news highlights in March: <\/p>\n\n\n\n