The Java Development Kit (JDK) 18 will be released on March 22, 2022. The new version of standard Java will have nine new features, and the feature set was frozen on December 9. After the initial rampdown phase that began last month, the release entered its second deceleration phase on January 20.

JDK 18: New features in Java 18
The OpenJDK page lists the following new features officially for JDK 18: service provider interface; simple web server; vector API; code snippets; re-implementing core reflection using method handles; default to UTF-8 character set; Foreign Function & Memory API (second incubator); pattern matching of switch statements (second preview); and completion of deprecation of finalization.
For details, please refer to: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/18/
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