Topic

JDK Release Cadence

Java's six-month feature release schedule, under which a new JDK ships each March and September and selected versions are designated long-term support.

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Java 27 couples post-quantum TLS 1.3 to two newly flipped JVM defaults

JEP 527's hybrid key exchange landed as a stable feature on September 15, and the same JDK makes G1 the collector on small machines and cuts every object header to 64 bits. Serial is still one flag away.

Publishers:blog.jetbrains.comdev.toinfoq.comphoronix.com

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