
JDK 16 is the reference implementation of the standard version of Java, built to follow JDK 15 that came on September 15. Java Development Kit 16 also has two newly introduced new features that include a foreign linker API and strong encapsulation of JDK internals.
JDK 16 – Java Development Kit 16 went to its first release stage on February 4, with the widespread availability of the product announcement fixed for March 16. The latest features in JDK 16 range from the second preview of sealed classes to concurrent thread-stack processing for garbage collection, and pattern matching.
Some of the New Features Added in Java 16:
1) Foreign Linker API
2) Warnings for Value-Based Classes
3) Strong Encapsulation
4) Moving Z Garbage Collector Thread-Stack Processing
5) A Flexible Metaspace Capability
6) Added C++ 14 Language Features
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