Welcome to OpenJDK 25! (#78)

Episode 78 of the Foojay Podcast. All info, show notes, and links are available at https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/.We're excited to present the first episode of the Foojay Podcast's fifth season, marking the release of OpenJDK 25!For the first time, an OpenJDK release is aligned with the year, and we can welcome release 25 in 2025. As usual in the release podcast, I have my regular guest, Simon Ritter. And in this episode, we are joined by Balkrishna Rawool to talk about all the new features in this new OpenJDK version.Guests   Simon Ritter      https://www.linkedin.com/in/siritter/    Balkrishna Rawool      https://www.linkedin.com/in/balkrishnarawool/Content00:00 Introduction of topic and guests01:21 How important is release 25 and upgrading your runtimes?   https://jdk.java.net/25/06:00 Process of releasing a new OpenJDK version and looking forward to version 2608:16 What are JEPs and OpenJDK projects09:20 Project Leyden   https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden/   JEP 514: Ahead-of-Time Command-Line Ergonomics      https://openjdk.org/jeps/514   JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling      https://openjdk.org/jeps/51511:28 Leyden compared to other solutions16:21 Project Valhalla   https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/17:06 JEP 519: Compact Object Headers   https://openjdk.org/jeps/51917:40 JEP 508: Vector API (Tenth Incubator)   https://openjdk.org/jeps/50818:58 Why Vector API is taking a long time to get finalized21:04 JEP 502: Stable (Immutable) Values   https://openjdk.org/jeps/50223:17 Project Loom   https://openjdk.org/projects/loom/23:30 JEP 506: Scoped Values   https://openjdk.org/jeps/50624:13 JEP 505: Structured Concurrency (Fifth Preview)   https://openjdk.org/jeps/50529:22 How Java evolved over 30 years33:34 Project Amber   https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/34:28 JEP 507: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Third Preview)   https://openjdk.org/jeps/50735:59 JEP 512: Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods   https://openjdk.org/jeps/51237:36 JEP 511: Module Import Declarations   https://openjdk.org/jeps/51138:36 JEP 513: Flexible Constructor Bodies   https://openjdk.org/jeps/51339:12 What's next in Project Amber43:25 What you can learn from JEPs, OpenJDK projects, and mailing lists44:21 JEP 521: Generational Shenandoah   https://openjdk.org/jeps/521   Trash Talk by Gerrit Grunwald      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwDe-hlSdI48:16 JEP 510: Key Derivation Function API   https://openjdk.org/jeps/51049:30  JEP 470: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Preview)   https://openjdk.org/jeps/47051:28 About Java Flight Recorder52:27 JEP 509: JFR CPU-Time Profiling (Experimental)   https://openjdk.org/jeps/50952:44 JEP 518: JFR Cooperative Sampling   https://openjdk.org/jeps/51853:15 JEP 520: JFR Method Timing & Tracing   https://openjdk.org/jeps/52053:38 More about JFR and comparing with GC logs57:04 JEP 503: Remove the 32-bit x86 Port   https://openjdk.org/jeps/50358:54 Looking forward to the following versions01:00:58 Conclusion