Renaissance 0.16.1 Released

November 10, 2025, author: Lubomír Bulej

We have released a maintenance update of the Renaissance benchmark suite, mainly to address compatibility issues with the upcoming Java 26 release. Apart from minor changes to the non-timed parts of the als and db-shootout benchmarks, there have been no changes to benchmark code. Similarly, apart from patches to avoid accessing JDK internals removed in Java 26, there have been no dependency version updates.

Other changes include harness updates to provide additional data in the output, loading of dependency JAR files from the main bundle without extracting them first, and more robust cleanup of the scratch directory on NFS. Finally, the suite documentation was updated to cover several known issues that require user intervention.

See the GitHub release for more details.

Any comments and contributions are welcome.

Happy benchmarking!

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