Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement Proposal 401, which introduces value classes and objects to the language, will be integrated into the OpenJDK mainline early next month targeting JDK 28. The change is part of Project Valhalla, a long-running effort to address one of Java’s oldest performance limitations. The pull request […] This story continues at The Next Web