NetBeans has been promoted to a top-level Apache project following its donation to the Incubator in 2016. The community has since delivered several nominal features.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has been working hard on its first release of the NetBeans IDE since Oracle contributed the popular software development environment to the ASF in October 2016.

The Apache Software Foundation announced the beta release of the still incubating version of Apache NetBeans 9.0.