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A Java Language Cumulative Feature Rollup

Every listed new feature since Java8.

102: Process API Updates 110: HTTP 2 Client 143: Improve Contended Locking 158: Unified JVM Logging 165: Compiler Control 193: Variable Handles 197: Segmented Code Cache 199: Smart Java Compilation, Phase Two 200: The Modular JDK 201: Modular Source Code 211: Elide Deprecation Warnings on Import Statements 212: Resolve Lint and Doclint Warnings 213: Milling Project Coin 214: Remove GC Combinations Deprecated in JDK 8 215: Tiered Attribution for javac 216: Process Import Statements Correctly 217: Annotations Pipeline 2.0 219: Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) 220: Modular Run-Time Images 221: Simplified Doclet API 222: jshell: The Java Shell (Read-Eval-Print Loop) 223: New Version-String Scheme 224: HTML5 Javadoc 225: Javadoc Search 226: UTF-8 Property Files 227: Unicode 7.0 228: Add More Diagnostic Commands 229: Create PKCS12 Keystores by Default 231: Remove Launch-Time JRE Version Selection 232: Improve Secure Application Performance 233: Generate Run-Time Compiler Tests Automatically 235: Test Class-File Attributes Generated by javac 236: Parser API for Nashorn 237: Linux/AArch64 Port 238: Multi-Release JAR Files 240: Remove the JVM TI hprof Agent 241: Remove the jhat Tool 243: Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface 244: TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation Extension 245: Validate JVM Command-Line Flag Arguments 246: Leverage CPU Instructions for GHASH and RSA 247: Compile for Older Platform Versions 248: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector 249: OCSP Stapling for TLS 250: Store Interned Strings in CDS Archives 251: Multi-Resolution Images 252: Use CLDR Locale Data by Default 253: Prepare JavaFX UI Controls & CSS APIs for Modularization 254: Compact Strings 255: Merge Selected Xerces 2.11.0 Updates into JAXP 256: BeanInfo Annotations 257: Update JavaFX/Media to Newer Version of GStreamer 258: HarfBuzz Font-Layout Engine 259: Stack-Walking API 260: Encapsulate Most Internal APIs 261: Module System 262: TIFF Image I/O 263: HiDPI Graphics on Windows and Linux 264: Platform Logging API and Service 265: Marlin Graphics Renderer 266: More Concurrency Updates 267: Unicode 8.0 268: XML Catalogs 269: Convenience Factory Methods for Collections 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections 271: Unified GC Logging 272: Platform-Specific Desktop Features 273: DRBG-Based SecureRandom Implementations 274: Enhanced Method Handles 275: Modular Java Application Packaging 276: Dynamic Linking of Language-Defined Object Models 277: Enhanced Deprecation 278: Additional Tests for Humongous Objects in G1 279: Improve Test-Failure Troubleshooting 280: Indify String Concatenation 281: HotSpot C++ Unit-Test Framework 282: jlink: The Java Linker 283: Enable GTK 3 on Linux 284: New HotSpot Build System 285: Spin-Wait Hints 287: SHA-3 Hash Algorithms 288: Disable SHA-1 Certificates 289: Deprecate the Applet API 290: Filter Incoming Serialization Data 291: Deprecate the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector 292: Implement Selected ECMAScript 6 Features in Nashorn 294: Linux/s390x Port 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation 297: Unified arm32/arm64 Port 298: Remove Demos and Samples 299: Reorganize Documentation 286: Local-Variable Type Inference 296: Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository 304: Garbage-Collector Interface 307: Parallel Full GC for G1 310: Application Class-Data Sharing 312: Thread-Local Handshakes 313: Remove the Native-Header Generation Tool (javah) 314: Additional Unicode Language-Tag Extensions 316: Heap Allocation on Alternative Memory Devices 317: Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler 319: Root Certificates 322: Time-Based Release Versioning 189: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector (Experimental) 230: Microbenchmark Suite 325: Switch Expressions (Preview) 334: JVM Constants API 340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two 341: Default CDS Archives 344: Abortable Mixed Collections for G1 346: Promptly Return Unused Committed Memory from G1

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