This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the behavioral change of `File` instances that were created from the empty path.

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JDK 27 will remove the empty `ThreadPoolExecutor.finalize()` method, which was deprecated for removal in JDK 18 as part of the broader effort to eliminate finalization. This removal creates a source-incompatible change: code calling `ThreadPoolExecutor.finalize()` directly or via `super.finalize()` will now implicitly call `Object.finalize()`, which throws `Throwable`, likely causing compile errors. Projects should remove finalize usage entirely, or as a workaround, wrap the invocation in a try-catch block.

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