Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available
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This article announces the general availability of Amazon Corretto 26, a free, multi-platform OpenJDK distribution for production use.
- HTTP/3 protocol support for faster, more efficient Java applications
- Ahead-of-Time Object Caching enables faster application startup times
- Enhanced Pattern Matching supports primitive types for cleaner code
- Final field immutability warnings prepare for future enforcement
- Structured Concurrency API improves task management and error handling
- Vector API enhancements for high-performance mathematical operations
- Lazy Constants API defers initialization of immutable data
- Supported through October 2026; available for Linux, Windows, macOS
Amazon Corretto 26 brings significant performance and language improvements to Java development with no-cost production-ready distribution.
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