This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK and JDK 17 moving to Rampdown Phase One, JDK 18, a new Helidon extension for Visual Studio Code, JFR support in GraalVM native images, Quarkus 1.13 maintenance release, WildFly 24 Beta1, and updates to Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
OpenJDK and JDK 17
In the JDK 17 early access builds, Build 26 features numerous changes from Build 25 that include fixes to various issues.
With its review completed this past week, JEP 415, Context-Specific Deserialization Filters, was promoted from Proposed to Target to Integrated status.
As per the JDK 17 release schedule, Mark Reinhold, chief architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle, formally declared that JDK 17 has entered Rampdown Phase One. This means that the main-line source repository has been forked to the JDK stabilization repository and no additional JEPs will be added for JDK 17. Therefore, the final set of 14 features for the GA release in September include:
- 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics
- 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators
- 382: New macOS Rendering Pipeline
- 391: macOS/AArch64 Port
- 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal
- 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals
- 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)
- 407: Remove RMI Activation
- 409: Sealed Classes
- 410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler
- 411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal
- 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)
- 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)
- 415: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters
More details may be found in the release notes and developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database.
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