This week’s Java roundup for December 20th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK with a new draft on value objects, JDK 18, JDK 19, Project Loom, additional statements from vendors on Log4Shell, numerous Spring and Quarkus updates, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0-M3, point releases from Apache Camel and Camel Quarkus, Apache Tika 2.2.1 and GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.9.
OpenJDK
A new JEP draft, Value Objects (Preview), was added to the list this past week. This new preview language and VM feature proposes to enhance the Java object model with value types defined as identity-free value classes and specifying the behavior of their instances. These classes contain only final instance fields and have no object identity.
