Java News Roundup: Hazelcast 5.5, Projects Loom and Valhalla, Hibernate ORM and Validation
InfoQ, Friday, August 9th, 2024
This week's Java roundup for July 29th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of Hazelcast 5.5; early-access releases for Project Loom and Project Valhalla; beta releases of Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Validation 9.0; and point releases for Quarkus, Helidon, GlassFish, JobRunr and Testcontainers for Java.
OpenJDK
JEP 404, Generational Shenandoah (Experimental), has been updated this past week to be included in JDK 24 despite its current Candidate status. We anticipate that this JEP will soon be promoted to Proposed to Target.
Originally targeted for JDK 21, JEP 404 was officially removed from the final feature set due to the "risks identified during the review process and the lack of time available to perform the thorough review that such a large contribution of code requires." The Shenandoah team decided to "deliver the best Generational Shenandoah that they can' and target a future release.