JDK 26 Arrives March 17 with HTTP/3 Support, GC-Agnostic AOT Caching, and the End of the Applet API
Java 26 ships 10 JEPs including HTTP/3, ahead-of-time caching for all garbage collectors, G1 throughput gains, and the final removal of the Applet API after a five-year deprecation.
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