OpenJDK and Oracle announced the General Availability of JDK 24 this Tuesday.
Java 24 (Oracle JDK 24) delivers thousands of improvements to help developers maximize productivity and drive innovation. In addition, enhancements to the platform’s performance, stability, and security help organizations accelerate their business growth.
JDK 24 is a short term release, which will receive updates in next 6 months until September 2025. Then it will be superseded by JDK 25, the next LTS.
Features in JDK 24 include:
- 404: Generational Shenandoah (Experimental)
- 450: Compact Object Headers (Experimental)
- 472: Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI
- 475: Late Barrier Expansion for G1
- 478: Key Derivation Function API (Preview)
- 479: Remove the Windows 32-bit x86 Port
- 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking
- 484: Class-File API
- 485: Stream Gatherers
- 486: Permanently Disable the Security Manager
- 487: Scoped Values (Fourth Preview)
- 488: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Second Preview)
- 489: Vector API (Ninth Incubator)
- 490: ZGC: Remove the Non-Generational Mode
- 491: Synchronize Virtual Threads without Pinning
- 492: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Third Preview)
- 493: Linking Run-Time Images without JMODs
- 494: Module Import Declarations (Second Preview)
- 495: Simple Source Files and Instance Main Methods (Fourth Preview)
- 496: Quantum-Resistant Module-Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism
- 497: Quantum-Resistant Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm
- 498: Warn upon Use of Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe
- 499: Structured Concurrency (Fourth Preview)
- 501: Deprecate the 32-bit x86 Port for Removal
Get Java JDK 24
Oracle provides JDK 24 binary packages available to download at the link below:
For OpenJDK JDK 24, go to the link below instead for ready to use tarballs:
