New candidate JEP: 421: Deprecate Finalization for Removal

Posted on November 1, 2021

Deprecate finalization for removal in a future release. Finalization remains enabled by default for now, but can be disabled to facilitate early testing. In a future release it will be disabled by default, and in a later release it will be removed. Maintainers of libraries and applications that rely upon finalization should consider migrating to other resource management techniques such as the try-with-resources statement and cleaners.…

More at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/421