Java 13

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

Status: Initial Release Candidate

Page last updated: 2019-09-02, 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:

• 2019/06/13 Rampdown Phase One
• 2019/07/18 Rampdown Phase Two
• 2019/08/08 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)
• 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)