Java 13 is going to be released on Sep 17th, 2019. Besides ~2300 bug fixes and small enhancements, the new version of Java contains 5 major enhancements which are also called JEPs (Java Enhancement Proposals). Let’s take a closer look at these major updates: text blocks, switch expressions, re-implemented the legacy Socket API, updates to ZGC and dynamic CDS archives.
Let’s take a look what is inside Java 12. The new Java release contains less major enhancements than the previous version: 8 JEPs in Java 12 vs 17 JEPs in Java 11. As you of course remember, JEP stands for JDK Enhancement Proposal. Java 11 also had more closed entries in Jira: ~2700 in Java 11 vs ~2400 in Java 12. But it’s only mid of Feb 2019, maybe they can deliver 300 Jira entries by Mar 19th 2019 when Java 12 is planned to be released. Now let’s take a closed look what is in Java 12.
Continue readingJava 11 was released on Sep 25th, 2018. This is the first long-term support release produced under the six-month cadence release model. Besides a huge number of small improvements and bug fixes, the new release contains 17 major enhancements including:
Although all these features are pretty cool, let’s focus on security in this post.
Java 10 is coming in March 2018. This release contains quite a lot of enhancements in the JVM. But it looks like JDK users are mostly interested in one particular update in the Java Language – type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers. Besides updates to the Java Language and JVM, Java 10 contains another update which together with the six-month release model has been bothering the Java community for several months.
Here is a digest of the rest of the main features in Java 10 which weren’t covered in the previous post. Enjoy!