Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release ...

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JEP 502 introduces the Stable Values API in JDK 25, enhancing application startup performance through deferred immutability. This feature allows for thread-safe, at-most-once initialization of complex ...

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code. Startup times for Java applications would be ...

Oracle has officially announced the OpenJDK 25. The release offers a total of 18 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals), many of which are marked as final. The version number just happens to match the year: ...

An incubating API, scoped values facilitate the sharing of data that does not change both across and within threads. They are especially suited for virtual threads. The different components within a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java collection classes allow a developer to keep track of contained items in one of two ways, ...