Java 26 Ships with HTTP/3 Support, GC-Independent AOT Caching, and the End of the Applet API
Oracle releases JDK 26 with ten JEPs spanning HTTP/3 client support, garbage-collector-independent ahead-of-time object caching, G1 throughput gains of up to 15 percent, and the final removal of the Applet API deprecated since JDK 17.
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