Java 21 marks the first installment of Oracle’s commitment to increasing the cadence of Java LTS versions. Java 17 was released in September 2021, marking the start of a two-year span between long term support versions. Previously, Java LTS versions were released every three years, and prior...
Other New Features Java 17 also brings a new rendering pipeline (JEP 382) for AWT/Swing applications running on macOS, utilizing Apple’s Metal API instead of OpenGL, as well as new API and enhancements for generating random numbers (JEP 356). 📚 Java 21 is here! Learn more about the ...
the Next LTS Release, Delivers Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern MatchingJDK 21 and JDK 22: What We Know So FarJava 21 New Features: “The ZGC is generational and will further improve performance for suitable
Java 21 introduces significant enhancements including Pattern Matching for Switch, Record Patterns, and String Templates. It also features Sequenced Collections, Virtual Threads, and Scoped Values, streamlining concurrent programming and improving code e
The 19th of September 2023, Java 21 was released. Time to take a closer look at the changes since the last LTS release, which is Java 17. In this blog, some of the changes between Java 17 and Java 21 are highlighted, mainly by means of examples. Enjoy! 1
Features and changes from Java 17 to Java 21. Record patterns, pattern matching, virtual threads, structured concurrency, Foreign Function & Memory API
New features in Java 19 New features of Java 20 sequence This article mainly describes the new features of Java 17 version number java -version openjdk version "17" 2021-09-14 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17+35-2724) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17+35-2724, mixed mode, sharin...
Java 21's impact on the development landscape Java 21 is a feature packed release building upon features since Java 17. Java 21 was chosen as the next LTS release by vendors which is great news especially for bigger companies who typically only allow the use of LTS versions. ...
Of the 24,196 JIRA issues marked as fixed in Java 11 through Java 21 at the time of their GA, 17,288 were completed by people working for Oracle while 6,908 were contributed by individual developers and developers working for other organizations. Going through the issues and collating the ...
For example, with a record Point, you can extract the x and y values. Before Java 21 record Point(int x, int y) {} static void printSum(Object obj) { if (obj instanceof Point p) { int x = p.x(); int y = p.y(); System.out.println(x+y); } } With Java 21 record ...