Java 9 - foojay

The information below presents data on Java 9, made available by Marc R. Hoffmann, from javaalmanac.io, provided under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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Java 9

version: 9 Release date: 2017-09-21 EOL date: 2018-03-20 bytecode: 53.0

Documentation: notes , vm , lang , api SCM: hg

Distro	TCK ¹	Vendor	License	Platforms
AdoptOpenJDK		AdoptOpenJDK	GPLv2+CE	aix-ppc64 linux-arm64 linux-ppc64le linux-s390x linux-x64 macos-x64 windows-x64
Liberica		BellSoft	GPLv2+CE	linux-arm32
Oracle JDK 9		Oracle	Commercial	linux-x64 macos-x64 solaris-sparcv9 windows-x64
Red Hat build of OpenJDK 9		Red Hat	GPLv2+CE	windows-x64

Technology Compatibility Kit

New Features

Language

Module System ( JEP 261 )
Private Methods in Interfaces ( JEP 213 )

API

Var Handles ( JEP 193 )
Compact Strings ( JEP 254 )
Reactive Streams ( JEP 266 )
Enhanced Deprecation ( JEP 277 )
Object.finalize() deprecated ( JDKIssue 8165641 )

Tools

jshell ( JEP 222 )
Multi-Release JAR Files ( JEP 238 )
Compile for Older Platform Versions ( JEP 247 )
jlink ( JEP 282 )

Internal

Indify String Concatenation ( JEP 280 )

New APIs

Compare to Java:

base: version: 9 build 9.0.4

target: version: 8 build 8.0.322