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Java 20 will be was released in March 2023. It is not an LTS release and will be obsoleted at the release of Java 21 in September 2023.

Status: early access

Page last updated: 2022-10-17, EA 20.

Schedule: TBD

General Availability

Resources:

• https://jdk.java.net/20/release-notes

• http://jdk.java.net/20/

• Schedule, status and features

Selected Changes Targeted to Java 20

• JDK-8249627: Thread.suspend/resume changed to throw UnsupportedOperationException

• JDK-8284842: Support Unicode 15.0

• JDK-8289610: Thread.Stop changed to throw UnsupportedOperationException

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• https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8294241

• https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8297030
  ”In this release the default idle connection timeout value for the HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 connections created by the java.net.http.HttpClient has been reduced from 1200 seconds to 30 seconds.”

•  https://openjdk.org/jeps/429

• JEP 432: Record Patterns (Second Preview)

• JEP 433: Pattern Matching for switch (Fourth Preview)

•  https://openjdk.org/jeps/436

• https://openjdk.org/jeps/437