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Java 12 will be released around 2019-03-20. It is not an LTS release and will be obsoleted at the release of Java 13 in September 2019.

Status: early access

Resources

• Java 12 Early-Access Builds

Changes Targeted to Java 12

• JEP 182 and JDK-8028563: no more support for -source/-target/-release 1.6.
  

Proposed to Target Java 12

• JEP 325: Switch Expressions (preview feature per JEP 12; i.e., may be removed in a later release)

Candidates:

• JEP 326: Raw String Literals