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Oracle will support JDK 11 including JDK 11 on Solaris through at least January 2032, the company confirmed in its Java SE Spring 2024 roadmap update.
More than 35% of Java applications are using Java 17 in production, up from 9% in 2023, according to New Relic’s 2024 State of the Java Ecosystem report.
Tool kit for monitoring, managing, profiling, and troubleshooting Java applications now requires JDK 17 or later to run.
Allowing developers to handle an exception from the selector in switch with a case in the switch block would make switch more usable for pattern matching, the proposal says.
Allowing entire modules to be imported all at once would eliminate tedious typing and simplify the reuse of modular libraries in Java.
State of DevSecOps report finds 90% of Java services susceptible to vulnerabilities in third-party libraries.
G1 garbage collector improvement would also reduce the overhead of the JDK’s C2 optimizing compiler, benefiting cloud-based Java deployments.
JetBrains IDEs introduce full line code completion using a built-in language model, starting with the 2024.1 versions.
K2 compiler provides significantly faster and more stable Kotlin code highlighting and Kotlin code completion, JetBrains said.
GraalVM for JDK 22 makes most Java 22 features available for Graal just-in-time and Native Image ahead-of-time compilation.
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