Java 26 has been released on schedule with the six-month release cadence, bringing 10 JEPs including 5 new features and 5 preview/incubator features. This podcast episode covers the highlights: UUIDv7 support, HTTP/3 for the HTTP Client API, removal of the Applet API (JEP 504), Lazy Constants (JEP 526), PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (JEP 524), Ahead-of-Time Object Caching with Any GC (JEP 516), G1 GC throughput improvements (JEP 522), Structured Concurrency sixth preview (JEP 525), Vector API eleventh incubator (JEP 529), and Primitive Types in Patterns fourth preview (JEP 530). The episode also discusses Java's role in the AI world and the future of carrier classes.
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