We had 2 release candidates to fix issues and improve developer experience and documentation. While it was a tremendous amount of work, it was mostly a lot of small adjustments. That being said, there are a few things that should be highlighted and here is a retrospective of these 2 release candidates.

If you are building native images with GraalVM, be sure to use 19.2.1. Support for 19.3.0 is planned for Quarkus 1.1.

Quarkus Platform

If you create a new project using https://code.quarkus.io/, you will notice that the generated project now includes what we call the Platform BOM instead of the usual Quarkus BOM.

What’s the difference with the Quarkus BOM you are used to (and you can still use by tweaking the Maven properties)? Mostly that you will be able to use the full Quarkus ecosystem instead of just the core extensions.