JDK 24 and JDK 25: What We Know So Far
InfoQ, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
JDK 24, the third non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its first release candidate phase as declared by Mark Reinhold, chief architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle.
The main-line source repository, forked to the JDK stabilization repository in early-December 2024 (Rampdown Phase One), defines the feature set for JDK 24. Critical bugs, such as regressions or serious functionality issues, may be addressed, but must be approved via the Fix-Request process. As per the release schedule, JDK 24 will be formally released on March 18, 2025.