“Java 15 is Here!” with Mikael Vidstedt

David Delabassee (@delabassee) discusses the latest Java release, Java 15, with Mikael Vidstedt (@MikaelVidstedt), Director of JVM Development. For future episodes and more, check out Inside Java and follow @java on Twitter.   Covered in This Episode New or updated Java language feature, Java SE API feature and JDK API Sealed Classes (Preview) Hidden Classes Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API Text Blocks Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator) Records (Second Preview) Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview) Garbage Collectors ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector Improving G1 out-of-the-box performance Deprecation & Removal Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine Security Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) Support for certificate_authorities Extension Other Features (JDK 14 & JDK 15) Cgroups v2: Container awareness JFR Event Streaming   OpenJDK Projects Discussed in this Episode Project Loom Project Panama Project Amber Project Valhalla   Additional Resources OpenJDK Oracle Java