Welcome to OpenJDK (Java) 24 (#68)

We serve you a podcast about the new Java version every six months.Our regular guest, Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul, is known on social media as "speakjava." He is part of the OpenJDK vulnerability group, JCP executive committee, and expert group for the Java SE specification request so that he can share a lot of inside information with us. In this episode, we are joined by Hanno Embregts, a Java Developer by day and musician by night. He publishes a post on Foojay with all the details of every new Java release and prepared a long description of all the new features included in Java 24.  Let's see what this new release brings us...Guests   Simon Ritter      https://www.linkedin.com/in/siritter/       https://bsky.app/profile/speakjava.bsky.social    Hanno Embregts      https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannotify/       https://bsky.app/profile/hanno.codes Content00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests00:58 Why 24 JEPs in release 24?02:16 Overview of the changes in Java 2403:37 The changes in Hotspot and GC   JEP 404: Generational Shenandoah (Experimental)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/404    JEP 450: Compact Object Headers (Experimental)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/450    JEP 475: Late Barrier Expansion for G1      https://openjdk.org/jeps/475 04:46 JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking      https://openjdk.org/jeps/483 07:30 JEP 491: Synchronize Virtual Threads without Pinning      https://openjdk.org/jeps/491 10:27 Security JEPs and Quantum resistance   JEP 478: Key Derivation Function API (Preview)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/478    JEP 496: Quantum-Resistant Module-Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism      https://openjdk.org/jeps/496    JEP 497: Quantum-Resistant Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm      https://openjdk.org/jeps/497 13:00 Tools   JEP 493: Linking Run-Time Images without JMODs      https://openjdk.org/jeps/493 16:47 Repreviews and finalizations   JEP 489: Vector API (Ninth Incubator)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/489 18:27 JEP 484: Class-File API      https://openjdk.org/jeps/484 19:13 JEP 485: Stream Gatherers      https://openjdk.org/jeps/485 21:22 JEP 487: Scoped Values (Fourth Preview)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/487 22:15 JEP 488: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Second Preview)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/488 22:30 How JEPs get finalized and included23:44 JEP 492: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Third Preview)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/492 24:09 JEP 494: Module Import Declarations (Second Preview)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/494 25:07 JEP 495: Simple Source Files and Instance Main Methods (Fourth Preview)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/495 29:24 JEP 499: Structured Concurrency (Fourth Preview)      https://openjdk.org/jeps/499 34:04 Deprecations & Restrictions34:46 JEP 472: Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI      https://openjdk.org/jeps/472 37:15 JEP 486: Permanently Disable the Security Manager      https://openjdk.org/jeps/486 38:53 JEP 490: ZGC: Remove the Non-Generational Mode      https://openjdk.org/jeps/490    Trash Talk - Exploring the JVM memory management by Gerrit Grunwald      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh79ojcror0 42:09 JEP 498: Warn upon Use of Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe      https://openjdk.org/jeps/498 45:43 Removal of 32-bit support   JEP 479: Remove the Windows 32-bit x86 Port      https://openjdk.org/jeps/479    JEP 501: Deprecate the 32-bit x86 Port for Removal      https://openjdk.org/jeps/501 47:37 Should we use Java 24 in production?51:09 Looking forward to the next LTS in September54:14 Conclusion