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Java 16

Status End of Life
Release Date 2021-03-15
EOL Date 2021-09-14
Latest Version 16.0.2
Class File Version 60.0
API Changes Compare to 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 1.4 - 1.3 - 1.2 - 1.1
Documentation Release Notes, Language Spec, VM Spec, JavaDoc
SCM git

New Features

Here are all new features in Java 16 by category. There is also of list of all features of all Java releases.

JVM

Language

API

Internal

Tools

Downloads

Vendor Product License Platform Downloads
Adoptium Eclipse Temurin GPLv2+CE
AdoptOpenJDK AdoptOpenJDK GPLv2+CE
Amazon Corretto 16 GPLv2+CE
Azul Systems Zulu Builds of OpenJDK 16 GPLv2+CE
BellSoft Liberica GPLv2+CE
IBM Semeru Runtime Open Edition, Version 16 GPLv2+CE
Oracle Oracle JDK 16 Commercial
SAP SapMachine 16 GPLv2+CE

Sandbox

Instantly compile and run Java 16 snippets without a local Java installation.

public class Java16 { record Lang(String name, int version) {} public static void main(String[] args) { var java = new Lang("Java", 16); System.out.printf("Hello %s!", java); } }