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What's new in version 0.29.1

The following new features and notable changes since version 0.29.0 are included in this release:

Features and changes

Binaries and supported environments

Eclipse OpenJ9™ release 0.29.1 supports OpenJDK 17.

AArch64 Linux is now a fully supported, production-ready target for OpenJDK 17.

To learn more about support for OpenJ9 releases, including OpenJDK levels and platform support, see Supported environments.

Start of content that applies to Java 17 plus New JDK 17 features

The following features are supported by OpenJ9:

  • JEP 409: Sealed Classes
    • Promoted from preview to a production-ready feature in this release.
  • JEP 411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal

The following features will be supported by OpenJ9 in a future release:

  • JEP 391: macOS/AArch64 Port
  • JEP 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)
  • JEP 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)

The following features are implemented in OpenJDK and available in any build of OpenJDK 17 with OpenJ9:

  • JEP 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics

  • JEP 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators

  • JEP 382: New macOS Rendering Pipeline
  • JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal
  • JEP 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals
  • JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)
  • JEP 407: Remove RMI Activation
  • JEP 415: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters

You can find the full list of features for JDK 17 at the OpenJDK project. Any remaining features that are listed do not apply to OpenJ9.

Note: Applications might be adversely affected by JEP 403 if they make use of internal APIs. You should update your application to use standard APIs. To temporarily work around this problem, use --add-opens, --add-exports on the command line for each package required.

Full release information

To see a complete list of changes between Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.29.0 and v0.29.1 releases, see the Release notes.