JDK 11

JDK 11 is the open-source reference implementation of version 11 of the Java SE Platform as specified by by JSR 384 in the Java Community Process.

JDK 11 reached General Availability on 25 September 2018. Production-ready binaries under the GPL are available from Oracle; binaries from other vendors will follow shortly.

The features and schedule of this release were proposed and tracked via the JEP Process, as amended by the JEP 2.0 proposal. The release was produced using the JDK Release Process (JEP 3).

Features

181: Nest-Based Access Control
309: Dynamic Class-File Constants
315: Improve Aarch64 Intrinsics
318: Epsilon: A No-Op Garbage Collector
320: Remove the Java EE and CORBA Modules
321: HTTP Client (Standard)
323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters
324: Key Agreement with Curve25519 and Curve448
327: Unicode 10
328: Flight Recorder
329: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 Cryptographic Algorithms
330: Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs
331: Low-Overhead Heap Profiling
332: Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
333: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
   (Experimental)
335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API

Schedule

2018/06/28		Rampdown Phase One (fork from main line)
2018/07/26		Rampdown Phase Two
2018/08/16		Initial Release Candidate
2018/08/30		Final Release Candidate
2018/09/25		General Availability