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Oracle's non-LTS Java 27 release makes G1 the universal default garbage collector, ships post-quantum TLS 1.3 key exchange, and finalizes compact object headers by default.

OpenJDK's interim policy bans AI-generated contributions on safety, security, and IP grounds, even as Oracle's CEO and CTO publicly celebrate AI coding productivity elsewhere in the company.

TornadoVM 6.0 removes its JNI and JVMCI dependencies, unifying Java GPU acceleration into one build spanning JDK 21 through 27 while retiring three hardware backends.

JEP 540 has reached Targeted status for JDK 28, adding a standard JSON API to the JDK itself, twelve years after a similar 2014 proposal was never delivered.

JDK 27's initial release candidate moves from August 6 to August 20 to align with Oracle's Critical Patch Update, shrinking the release's feedback window ahead of a nine-JEP September launch.

The June 10 release adds gRPC server and client support, an InetAddressFilter to block SSRF, and a Kotlin 2.3.21 baseline.

Microsoft open-sourced its Eclipse IDE Copilot plugin on May 21, releasing roughly 15,000 lines of Java under MIT and drawing 1,200+ stars within hours.

JUnit 6.1.0, released May 19, absorbs JUnit Pioneer's locale, timezone, and system-property extensions into core while replacing ForkJoinPool with a simpler thread pool for parallel test execution.

Oracle releases JDK 26 with ten JEPs spanning HTTP/3 client support, garbage-collector-independent ahead-of-time object caching, G1 throughput gains of up to 15 percent, and the final removal of the Applet API deprecated since JDK 17.

Java 26 ships 10 JEPs including HTTP/3, ahead-of-time caching for all garbage collectors, G1 throughput gains, and the final removal of the Applet API after a five-year deprecation.