This week’s Java roundup for October 10th, 2022 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Spring Framework 6.0-RC1, Spring Batch 5.0-M8, Quarkus 2.13.2, Helidon 3.0.2 and 2.5.4, Project Reactor 2022.0-RC1, Piranha 22.10.0, JHipster Lite 0.18.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.83 and 10.1.1 Apache James 3.7.2 and Devoxx Belgium.
OpenJDK
JEP 431, Sequenced Collections, was promoted from its Draft 8280836 to Candidate status this past week. This JEP proposes to introduce “a new family of interfaces that represent the concept of a collection whose elements are arranged in a well-defined sequence or ordering, as a structural property of the collection.” Motivation was due to a lack of a well-defined ordering and uniform set of operations within the Collections Framework.