Proposed JEP 540 would bring lightweight JSON support to the JDK while complementing, rather than replacing, established libraries.

JDK 27 will include a new default garbage collector and eight other features. A release candidate is due August 6.

The current version, OpenJDK 25, was released in the fall of 2025, with many vendors offering Long-Term Support (LTS). Many companies use such releases as a stability anchor for migrations and ...

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How do you create a beautiful API? Knowing that effective API development is as much an art as it is a science, TheServerSide posed this very question to MikeAmundsen (@mamund), the Principal API ...

The Foreign Function & Memory API in Java provides significantly easier access to functions in C libraries than the outdated JNI. Java's Foreign Function & Memory API (FFM) is used to access code in a ...

JDK 26 has moved to general production availability. This short-term feature release is backed by six months of Premier-level support. Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, the latest standard Java release ...