Java 12 was released on 2019-03-19. It is not an LTS release and will be obsoleted at the release of Java 13 on 2019-09-17.
Status: general availability.
Page last updated: 2019-03-20, general availability release.
Resources
- Java 12 Early-Access Builds (note: OpenJDK builds only; no Oracle builds yet)
- Release notes
- Sean Mullan's summary of features
Changes Targeted to Java 12
- JEP 182 and JDK-8028563: no more support for
-source/-target/-release1.6. - JEP 325: Switch Expressions (preview feature per JEP 12; i.e., may be removed in a later release)
- JDK-8208350: Disabled all DES TLS Cipher Suites
- JDK-8207258: Distrust TLS server certificates anchored by Symantec Root CAs
- JDK-8209923: Unicode 11
- JDK-8211883: TLS anon and NULL Cipher Suites are Disabled
- JDK-8192939: Remove Finalize methods from FileInputStream and FileOutputStream
- JDK-8211107: LDAPS Communication Failure: "Application code using LDAPS with a socket connect timeout that is <= 0 ( the default value ), may encounter an exception when establishing the connection."
- JDK-8140466: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 TLS Cipher Suites
Removed preview features
Note that JEP 326 (Raw String Literals) was at one time targeted to Java 12 as a preview feature, but has been removed