Project Loom

2026

• JEP targeted to JDK 27: 533: Structured Concurrency (7th Preview) by Alan Bateman, Viktor Klang, Ron Pressler on May 11, 2026
• Episode 46 “Java's Plans for 2026” [IJN] by Nicolai Parlog on February 20, 2026
• Java's Plans for 2026 - Inside Java Newscast #104 by Nicolai Parlog on January 8, 2026

2025

• Virtual Threads in the Real World: Fast, Robust Java Microservices with Helidon by Joe Di Pol (guest) on December 21, 2025
• Java's 2025 in Review - Inside Java Newscast #103 by Nicolai Parlog on December 18, 2025
• Valhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne'25 on December 15, 2025
• JEP targeted to JDK 26: 525: Structured Concurrency (6th Preview) by Alan Bateman, Viktor Klang, Ron Pressler on November 24, 2025
• Structured Concurrency in Action by Nicolai Parlog on October 16, 2025
• Reviewing the JDK 25 Release Notes - Inside Java Newscast #98 by Billy Korando on September 25, 2025
• All API Additions From Java 21 to 25 #RoadTo25 by Nicolai Parlog on September 9, 2025
• JEP targeted to JDK 25: 506: Scoped Values by Andrew Haley (guest), Andrew Dinn (guest) on June 2, 2025
• JEP targeted to JDK 25: 505: Structured Concurrency (5th Preview) by Alan Bateman, Viktor Klang, Ron Pressler on May 12, 2025
• Structured Concurrency Revamp in Java 25 - Inside Java Newscast #91 by Nicolai Parlog on May 8, 2025
• Scoped Values in Java 24 - Inside Java Newscast #86 by Nicolai Parlog on February 27, 2025
• Project Loom and Virtual Threads: Next Phases by Alan Bateman on February 22, 2025
• Java's Plans for 2025 - Inside Java Newscast #83 by Nicolai Parlog on January 16, 2025

2024

• Java 24 Stops Pinning Virtual Threads (Almost) - Inside Java Newscast #80 by Nicolai Parlog on November 21, 2024
• JEP targeted to JDK 24: 491: Synchronize Virtual Threads without Pinning by Alan Bateman, Patricio Chilano Mateo on November 15, 2024
• JEP targeted to JDK 24: 487: Scoped Values (4th Preview) by Andrew Haley (guest) on November 13, 2024
• Are Virtual Threads Going to Make Reactive Programming Irrelevant? by José Paumard on October 28, 2024
• Loom's Next Phases with Alan Bateman - Live Q&A at Devoxx BE by Nicolai Parlog, Alan Bateman on October 9, 2024
• Loom - Where Are We? #JVMLS by Alan Bateman on October 6, 2024
• New Loom Early-Access Builds with Changes for JDK 24 by Alan Bateman on September 8, 2024
• Project Loom - Structured Concurrency by Alan Bateman on July 13, 2024
• Quality Outreach Heads-up - New Loom Early-Access Builds by David Delabassee on June 22, 2024
• JEP targeted to JDK 23: 481: Scoped Values (3rd Preview) by Andrew Haley (guest) on June 4, 2024
• JEP targeted to JDK 23: 480: Structured Concurrency (Third Preview) by Ron Pressler, Alan Bateman on June 2, 2024
• Java in 2024 - Constant evolution, delivered. by Georges Saab, Chad Arimura on June 1, 2024
• JDK 22 in Two Minutes! - Sip of Java by Billy Korando on March 21, 2024
• Quality Outreach Heads-up - Virtual Threads “Pinning” Issue by David Delabassee on February 21, 2024
• Virtual Threads - Next Steps by Alan Bateman on February 17, 2024
• Managing Throughput with Virtual Threads - Sip of Java by Billy Korando on February 4, 2024
• Java's Plans for 2024 - Inside Java Newscast #61 by Nicolai Parlog on January 18, 2024

2023

• JEP targeted to JDK 22: 462: Structured Concurrency (Second Preview) by Alan Bateman, Ron Pressler on December 11, 2023
• Java 22 Unpacking - Inside Java Newscast #59 by Nicolai Parlog on December 7, 2023
• JEP targeted to JDK 22: 464: Scoped Values (Second Preview) by Andrew Haley (guest), Andrew Dinn (guest) on December 2, 2023
• Virtual Threads Explained - Sip of Java by Billy Korando on October 30, 2023
• Java Architects Answer Your Questions by Alan Bateman, Kevin Rushforth, Stuart Marks, Brian Goetz, Nicolai Parlog on October 26, 2023
• Virtual Threads: An Adoption Guide on September 20, 2023
• JDK 21 Release - Sip of Java by Billy Korando on September 18, 2023
• Java 21 new feature: Virtual Threads #RoadTo21 by José Paumard on August 30, 2023
• JVMLS - Continuations Under the Covers by Ron Pressler on August 26, 2023
• JVMLS - The Challenges of Introducing Virtual Threads to the Java Platform by Alan Bateman on August 25, 2023
• All That is in Java 21?! - Inside Java Newscast #50 by Nicolai Parlog on June 8, 2023
• Java Virtual Threads by Sergey Kuksenko on May 4, 2023
• JDK 20 Release! - Sip of Java by Billy Korando on April 22, 2023
• Helidon - Microservices on Modern Java by Joe Di Pol (guest) on April 21, 2023
• JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 444: Virtual Threads by Alan Bateman, Ron Pressler on April 9, 2023
• Java Next - From Amber to Loom, from Panama by Nicolai Parlog on April 2, 2023
• Java's Plans for 2023 - Inside Java Newscast #40 by Nicolai Parlog on January 19, 2023
• Episode 29 “Helidon Níma & Virtual Threads” by David Delabassee, Tomas Langer (guest) on January 12, 2023
• From ThreadLocal to ScopedValue with Loom - JEP Café #16 by José Paumard on January 10, 2023

2022

• New candidate JEP: 436: Virtual Threads (2nd Preview) by Alan Bateman, Ron Pressler on November 15, 2022
• New candidate JEP: 437: Structured Concurrency (2nd Incubator) by Alan Bateman, Ron Pressler on November 15, 2022
• Inside Java | JavaOne 2022 Technical Keynote by Chad Arimura on October 24, 2022
• The Age of Virtual Threads by Alan Bateman, Ron Pressler on October 13, 2022
• Loom in the Java Ecosystem - Inside Java Newscast #34 by Billy Korando, Ana-Maria Mihalceanu, Chad Arimura, José Paumard on September 27, 2022
• Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications by Brian Goetz on September 23, 2022
• JavaOne Preview | Streamlining Large-Scale Java Development by James Grisanzio, Sander Mak (guest) on September 15, 2022
• Java To The Future by Billy Korando on September 14, 2022
• Helidon Níma — Helidon on Virtual Threads by Tomas Langer (guest) on September 12, 2022
• Java 19 in Action - Inside Java Newscast #33 by Nicolai Parlog on September 8, 2022
• airhacks.fm: Java 19 Millions of Threads in No Time by Nicolai Parlog, Adam Bien (guest) on September 5, 2022
• New candidate JEP: 429: Extent-Local Variables (Incubator) by Andrew Haley (guest) on August 12, 2022
• Java Asynchronous Programming Full Tutorial with Loom and Structured Concurrency - JEP Café #13 by José Paumard on August 2, 2022
• Launching 10 millions virtual threads with Loom - JEP Café #12 by José Paumard on July 7, 2022
• Java 19 - The Best Java Release? - Inside Java Newscast #27 by Nicolai Parlog on June 16, 2022
• Java 19 Virtual Threads - JEP Café #11 by José Paumard on June 8, 2022
• JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 428: Structured Concurrency (Incubator) by Alan Bateman, Ron Pressler on May 26, 2022
• News Grab Bag: Loom Virtual Threads, Lilliput, Pattern Matching, … - Inside Java Newscast #25 by Nicolai Parlog on May 20, 2022
• New candidate JEP: 428: Structured Concurrency (Incubator) by Alan Bateman, Ron Pressler on May 18, 2022
• Quality Outreach Heads-up - JEP 425 Virtual Threads (preview) Testing by David Delabassee on May 16, 2022
• Java Next - From Amber to Loom, from Panama to Valhalla by Nicolai Parlog on May 9, 2022
• New Loom Early Access builds by Alan Bateman on April 30, 2022
• JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview) by Mark Reinhold on April 28, 2022
• Virtual Thread Deep Dive - Inside Java Newscast #23 by Nicolai Parlog on April 7, 2022
• New candidate JEP: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview) by Ron Pressler, Alan Bateman on April 6, 2022
• Java's Plans for 2022 - Inside Java Newscast #18 by Nicolai Parlog on January 13, 2022

2021

• New Loom Early Access builds by Alan Bateman on December 24, 2021
• Loom Brings Structured Concurrency - Inside Java Newscast by Nicolai Parlog on December 17, 2021
• On Parallelism and Concurrency by Ron Pressler on November 30, 2021
• A new Loom EA build and a new structured concurrency API by Ron Pressler on November 15, 2021
• Why user-mode threads are (often) the right answer by Ron Pressler on October 26, 2021
• Modern, Scalable Concurrency for the Java Platform by Ron Pressler on October 13, 2021
• New candidate JEP: 418: Internet-Address Resolution SPI by Mark Reinhold on September 4, 2021
• New Loom Early Access Build by Alan Bateman on August 13, 2021
• AMA About the Java Language by Brian Goetz, Nicolai Parlog on August 2, 2021
• Project Loom: Modern Scalable Concurrency for the Java Platform by Ron Pressler on August 2, 2021
• Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency with Ron Pressler by Ron Pressler on May 31, 2021
• Networking I/O with Virtual Threads - Under the hood by Chris Hegarty on May 10, 2021
• Episode 16 “Let's Discuss JDK and Networking” with Michael McMahon and Daniel Fuchs by Michael McMahon, Daniel Fuchs, David Delabassee on April 12, 2021
• New Loom Early Access Build by Alan Bateman on March 13, 2021
• Project Loom: Modern scalable concurrency for the Java platform by Alan Bateman on February 4, 2021
• New Loom Early Access Build by Alan Bateman on January 16, 2021

2020

• New Loom Early Access Build by Alan Bateman on December 1, 2020
• Episode 8 “Project Loom” with Ron Pressler by Ron Pressler, Chad Arimura on November 24, 2020
• Project Loom: Scalable, Harmonious Concurrency for the Java Platform by Ron Pressler on November 11, 2020
• Project Loom - Modern Scalable Concurrency for the Java Platform by Ron Pressler on September 17, 2020
• On the Performance of User-Mode Threads and Coroutines by Ron Pressler on August 7, 2020
• Project Loom: Modern Scalable Concurrency for the Java Platform by Ron Pressler on July 29, 2020
• New Project Loom Early-Access Builds by Alan Bateman on July 26, 2020
• Loom Q&A by Ron Pressler on July 15, 2020
• New Project Loom Early-Access Builds by Alan Bateman on June 29, 2020
• Virtual Threads use Preemptive Scheduling by Alan Bateman on June 8, 2020
• State of Loom by Ron Pressler on May 15, 2020
• A New Project Loom Early Access Build by Alan Bateman on April 21, 2020

2019

• Virtual Threads - A Short Note about Naming by Ron Pressler on November 21, 2019
• Loom: Helping Write Concurrent Applications on the Java Platform by Ron Pressler on November 6, 2019
• A lightweight thread is a Thread by Alan Bateman on October 22, 2019
• Project Loom Is Moving to GitHub by Ron Pressler on August 23, 2019
• Early Access Loom Builds by Ron Pressler on July 29, 2019
• Project Loom Update by Alan Bateman, Rickard Bäckman on July 29, 2019

2018

• InfoQ Podcast with Brian Goetz by Brian Goetz on December 23, 2018
• Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for Java by Alan Bateman on November 14, 2018

2017

• Your next JVM: Panama, Valhalla, Metropolis by John Rose on April 17, 2017