JSON API + Valhalla Progress + LTS ❤️ PQC - Inside Java Newscast #114

JEP 540 proposes to incubate a simple JSON API and is currently proposed to target JDK 28. The pull request for Project Valhalla's JEPs 401 and 539 was merged and value types are available as a preview feature in the latest JDK 28 early-access builds. Oracle plans to backport post-quantum cryptography to Oracle JDKs with LTS (25, 21, 17, 11, and 8) and move Java to monthly security updates (currently quarterly).

Show Notes

• Dan's mail re values

• Angelos' mail re primitive patterns

• JEP 540

• JEP 496

• JEP 497

• JEP 572

• blog post in PQC in LTS

• accelerated vulnerability detection and response

• more frequent Oracle JDK releases

• more frequent OpenJDK releases

• JDK 27 RC pushed back

• OpenJDK Mail Search

Additional Resources

• dev.java: the destination for Java developers

• OpenJDK: the place to collaborate on the Java Platform and related projects

• Oracle Java: the #1 programming language and development platform

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