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Java 13 will be released in on 2019-09-17. It is not an LTS release and will be obsoleted at the release of Java 14 in March 2020.

Status: early accessInitial Release Candidate

Page last updated: 2019-0309-20, EA 1202, EA 33.

Note: final release candidate was expected 2019-08-22, but as of 2019-09-02 nothing has been released after the initial release candidate (EA 33).

Schedule: not yet available

• 2019/??06/?? 13 Rampdown Phase One
• 2019/??07/?? 18 Rampdown Phase Two
• 2019/??/?? Release-Candidate Phase/08/08 Initial Release Candidate
• 2019/08/22 Final Release Candidate
• 2019/??09/?? 17 General Availability

Resources

• Java 13 Early-Access Builds (note: OpenJDK builds only; no Oracle builds)
• Release notes
• Jave SE 13 Platform JSR 388

Selected Changes Targeted to Java 13

• JDK-8160247: Mark deprecated javax.security.cert APIs with forRemoval=true (implies removal in Java 14 or later)
• JDK-8206132: DOM parser does not honor DocumentBuilderFactory.setExpandEntityReferences(false)

Proposed to Target Java 13

• nothing yet

Candidates:

• JDK-8173605: Removal of --source support for Java 7.JDK-8215608: Old Features Removed from javadoc  tool. No more HTML4 API documentation.
• JDK-8221481: Reimplement the Legacy Socket API. What could possibly go wrong?
• JDK-8224767: New String constants for Canonical XML 1.1 URIs
• JEP 351: ZGC: Uncommit Unused Memory
• JEP 354: Switch Expressions (Preview)
• JEP 355: Text Blocks (Preview)