JAVA 12 officially released

Today, JAVA 12 is officially released.

Last September, Oracle launched a long-term supported version of Java 11 (18.9 LTS), but this release of Java 12 is a short-term supported version, which can obtain Oracle's commercial support before the release of the next version.

Even so, Java 12 is not a small version. It brings the following eight major new features:

• 189 Shenandoah: A Low Pause Time Garbage Collector (Experimental)
• 230 Microbenchmark Suite
• 325 Switch Expressions (Preview) Switch Expression
• 334 JVM Constants API JVM constant API
• 340 One AArch64 Port, Not Two only retains one AArch64 implementation
• 341 Default CDS Archives
• 344 Abortable Mixed Collections for G1 Abortable G1 Mixed GC
• 346 Prompt Return Unused Committed Memory from G1 G1

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