Java 16

Owned by Ian Young

Last updated: Sept 08, 2021 by Scott Cantor

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Java 16 was released in March 2021. It is not an LTS release and will be obsoleted at the release of Java 17 in September 2021.

Status: General Availability

Page last updated: 2021-02-08, EA 35

Schedule:

2020-12-10 Rampdown Phase One
2021-01-14 Rampdown Phase Two
2021-02-04 Initial Release Candidate
2021-02-18 Final Release Candidate
2021-03-16 General Availability

Resources

Java 16 Early-Access Builds (note: OpenJDK builds only; no Oracle builds)
Release notes
Jave SE 16 Platform

Selected Changes Targeted to Java 16

JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub
JEP 380: Unix-Domain Socket Channels
JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port
JEP 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
JEP 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
JEP 395: Records
JEP 396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default
JEP 397: Sealed Classes (Second Preview)