

The new capabilities coming to Java 16 include: Read more Read more Īs of October 8, eight proposals officially target JDK 16. The production release is slated to be published March 16, 2021. A proposed release schedule has JDK 16 reaching rampdown phases on December 10 and January 14, 2021, followed by release candidates arriving February 4 and February 18, 2021. JDK 16 will be the reference implementation of the version of standard Java set to follow JDK 15, which arrived September 15. JDK 16: What’s coming in Java 16 JDK 16: What’s coming in Java 16 Read moreĪlthough not due to arrive until March 2021, Java Development Kit (JDK) 16 has begun to take shape, with proposed features including concurrent thread-stack processing for garbage collection, support for C++ 14 language features, and an “elastic metaspace” capability to more quickly return unused class metadata memory to the OS.
