Integrity by Default

2026

• Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 26: Warnings About Final Field Mutation by Nicolai Parlog on May 15, 2026
• Avoiding Final Field Mutation by Nicolai Parlog on April 27, 2026
• Episode 55 “You Must Avoid Final Field Mutation” [IJN] by Nicolai Parlog on April 16, 2026

2025

• On the Boundaries of Final by Jonas Norlinder on December 8, 2025
• Java 26 Warns of Deep Reflection - Inside Java Newscast #101 by Nicolai Parlog on November 20, 2025
• JEP targeted to JDK 26: 500: Prepare to Make Final Mean Final by Ron Pressler, Alex Buckley on November 7, 2025
• Integrity by Default by Ron Pressler on November 4, 2025
• The not-so-final word on final #JVMLS by Maurizio Cimadamore on August 12, 2025
• Episode 38 “Integrity by Default” with Ron Pressler by Ron Pressler, Nicolai Parlog on June 24, 2025
• Peaceful and Bright Future of Integrity by Default in Java by Ana-Maria Mihalceanu on January 3, 2025

2024

• Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 24: Prepares Restricted Native Access by Nicolai Parlog on December 9, 2024
• JEP Targeted to JDK 24: 498: Warn upon Use of Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe by Ron Pressler, Alex Buckley on November 28, 2024
• JEP targeted to JDK 24: 472: Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI by Ron Pressler on October 16, 2024
• Integrity by Default #JVMLS by Ron Pressler on September 12, 2024
• Tutorial: Leveraging JDK Tools and Updates to Help Safeguard Java Applications by Dalibor Topić on August 7, 2024
• Integrity by Default - Inside Java Newscast #73 by Nicolai Parlog on July 18, 2024
• JEP targeted to JDK 23: 471: Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal by Ron Pressler, Alex Buckley on June 4, 2024
• Quality Outreach Heads-up - Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal in a Future Release by David Delabassee on January 29, 2024

2023

• JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 451: Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents by Ron Pressler on May 24, 2023

2021

• JEP proposed to target JDK 17: 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Mark Reinhold on May 18, 2021

2020

• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default by Mark Reinhold on November 19, 2020