Java 14

Java 14 will be released in March 2020. It is not an LTS release and will be obsoleted at the release of Java 15 in September 2020.

Status: Initial Release Candidate

Page last updated: 2020-02-11, EA 36.

Schedule:

• 2019-12-12 Rampdown Phase One

• 2020-01-16 Rampdown Phase Two

• 2020-02-06 Initial Release Candidate (EA36)

• 2020-02-20 Final Release Candidate

• 2020-03-17 General Availability

Resources

• Java 14 Early-Access Builds (note: OpenJDK builds only; no Oracle builds)

• Release notes

• Jave SE 14 Platform

Selected Changes Targeted to Java 14

• JEP 305: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview)

• JEP 349: JFR Event Streaming

• JEP 352: Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers

• JEP 358: Helpful NullPointerExceptions

• JEP 359: Records (Preview)

• JEP 361: Switch Expressions (Standard)

• JEP 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports

• JEP 364: ZGC on macOS

• JEP 365: ZGC on Windows

• JEP 368: Text Blocks (Second Preview)

• Removed Deprecated java.security.acl APIs (JDK-8191138) (we don't use these)

• SunJCE provider now throws NoSuchAlgorithmException for AES/GCM/PKCS5Padding (JDK-8180392)

• Default (XML Transform) ErrorListener No Longer Reports Warnings and Errors to the Console (JDK-8228854) (I'm guessing we don't ever use the default)

• New Method to SAX ContentHandler for Handling XML Declaration (JDK-8230814) (addition to an interface, but can be ignored because a default no-op implementation is provided)

• JDK-8231602: Deprecate Thread.suspend/resume for removal

• Remove the default keytool -keyalg value (JDK-8214024) (–keyalg is now required, no default: not relevant to us if we're generating keys the hard way)

• Update Apache Santuario (XML Signature) to version 2.1.4 (JDK-8231507)