Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release ...
The Next Web

Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...
InfoWorld

JDK 16: The new features in Java 16

Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK) 16 is now available as a production release, as of March 16. The new features in JDK 16 range from a second preview of sealed classes to records to concurrent ...
InfoQ

Java News Roundup: JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase Two, Graal Development Kit, Payara Platform, JSpecify

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at ...
ZDNet

Java developers: Microsoft's OpenJDK build is now generally available

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...
InfoWorld

Java JDK 11: All the new features now available

Java Development Kit (JDK) 11 is now generally available and ready for production use, bringing productivity improvements and an HTTP client API that implements HTTP/2. In Java 11, Oracle has forked ...
Computer Weekly

As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK

The latest State of Java report from Azul Systems shows that the 30-year-old programming language has moved with the times and is being used for advanced applications like adding artificial ...
ZDNet

Oracle's Java 15: New features aim to keep millions away from languages like Rust, Kotlin

Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...