Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability
JDK 25, the reference implementation of Java 25, is now Generally Available. We shipped build 36 as the second Release Candidate of JDK 25 on 15 August, and no P1 bugs have been reported since then. Build 36 is therefore now the GA build, ready for production use. GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: https://jdk.java.net/25 Builds from other vendors will no doubt be available soon. This release includes eighteen JEPs [1]: 470: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Preview) 502: Stable Values (Preview) 503: Remove the 32-bit x86 Port 505: Structured Concurrency (Fifth Preview) 506: Scoped Values 507: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Third Preview) 508: Vector API (Tenth Incubator) 509: JFR CPU-Time Profiling (Experimental) 510: Key Derivation Function API 511: Module Import Declarations 512: Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods 513: Flexible Constructor Bodies 514: Ahead-of-Time Command-Line Ergonomics 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling 518: JFR Cooperative Sampling 519: Compact Object Headers 520: JFR Method Timing & Tracing 521: Generational Shenandoah This release also includes, as usual, hundreds of smaller enhancements and thousands of bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who contributed this release, whether by designing and implementing features or enhancements, by fixing bugs, or by testing the early-access builds! - Mark [1] https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/25/