This week’s Java roundup for December 6th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18 having moved into Rampdown Phase One, the creation of JDK 19 expert group, the discovery of a remote code execution vulnerability in Log4J, MicroProfile 5.0, and various Spring, Hibernate and Quarkus point releases.
OpenJDK
After its review had concluded, JEP 421, Deprecate Finalization for Removal, was promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 18. This JEP deprecates the finalization mechanism, first introduced in JDK 1.0, for removal in a future JDK release. While finalization was designed to avoid resource leaks, it suffered several critical flaws such as unpredictable latency, uncontrolled behavior and threading, and was always enabled by default.
