JDK 20 released

[Posted March 21, 2023 by corbet]

Version 20 of the Java SE platform has been released. See the features list for an overview of the big additions, or the release notes for the details.

JDK 20 released

Posted Mar 23, 2023 8:15 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (2 responses)

I am not an expert in the process they use for development but to me it looks like the feature list only has preview and incubator features, nothing stable?

JDK 20 released

Posted Mar 23, 2023 9:12 UTC (Thu) by parametricpoly (subscriber, #143903) [Link]

Correct. Of course there are smaller fixes as well, but they release a new major version every 6 months, so it's not so surprising if some versions don't ship with new stable features. The preview features have some updates, though.

JDK 20 released

Posted Mar 23, 2023 13:53 UTC (Thu) by fredrik (subscriber, #232) [Link]

Slightly off topic, the approach with Preview and Incubator features is neat. It is much more approachable to explore new features before they are finalized, when they are available in an otherwise stable release.

I mean, you already have the stable version, no need to hunt for a beta or nightly build, etc.