This week’s Java roundup for February 6th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Open Liberty 23.0.0.1 and 23.0.0.2-beta, Helidon 3.1.1, Quarkus 2.16.2 and 3.0.0.Alpha4, Micronaut 3.8.4, Hibernate ORM 6.2, 6.1.7 and 5.6.15, Grails 5.3.0, Apache Groovy 4.0.9 and 3.0.15, Apache Camel 3.20.2, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.8, Gradle 8.0.0-RC5, Jarviz 0.2.0, Kotlin K2 compiler and Jfokus conference.
OpenJDK
Gavin Bierman, consulting member of technical staff at Oracle, has provided the third draft specification for JEP 430, String Templates (Preview). Still in Candidate status, this latest update for JEP 430 is a substantial rewrite that more fully covers how templates are tokenized and how to deal with ambiguities and text block templates.