Java 16

Status	In Development
Release Date	2021/03
EOL Date	2021/09
Bytecode Version	60.0
API Changes	Compare to 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 1.4 - 1.3 - 1.2 - 1.1
Documentation	Release Notes, JavaDoc
SCM	git

Data Source

The OpenJDK source tree has moved from Mercurial to Git and is now hosted on GitHub. The migration is described in JEP 369.

New Features

JVM

ZGC: Concurrent Thread Processing (JEP 376)
Alpine Linux Port (JEP 386)
Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default (JEP 396)

Language

Warnings for Value-Based Classes (JEP 390)
Pattern Matching for instanceof (JEP 394)
Records (JEP 395)
Static Members in Inner Classes (JEP 395)
Sealed Classes Preview (JEP 397)

API

Unix-Domain Socket Channels (JEP 380)

Internal

Enable C++14 Language Features (JEP 347)
Migrate to Git/GitHub (JEP 357, JEP 369)

Downloads

Vendor	Product	License	Platform Downloads
Azul Systems	Zulu Builds of OpenJDK 16	GPLv2+CE	alpine-x64 linux-x86 linux-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64 macos-x64 macos-arm64
Oracle	Oracle OpenJDK 16	GPLv2+CE	linux-arm64 linux-x64 macos-x64 windows-x64
SAP	SapMachine 16	GPLv2+CE	linux-arm64 linux-ppc64 linux-ppc64le linux-x64 macos-x64 windows-x64

Data Source

Sandbox

Instantly compile and run Java 16 snippets without a local Java installation.

public class Java16 { record Lang(String name, int version) {} public static void main(String[] args) { var java = new Lang("Java", 16); System.out.printf("Hello %s!", java); } }