JDK 22 Release Candidates & Virtual Threads pinning heads-up
by David Delabassee
Welcome to the latest OpenJDK Quality Outreach update!
The first JDK 22 Release Candidates builds are now available [1]. At this stage, only P1 issues will still be evaluated. And with the JDK 22 General Availability set for March 19th, it is now time to fully focus on JDK 23. At the time of writing, one JEP has already been integrated in JDK 23, i.e., JEP 455: 'Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview)' [2]. But new JEP candidates [3][4] have recently been announced, so things should evolve rapidly.
I'd like to thank those of you who have already provided feedback on the JDK 22 EA builds. Feedback is always extremely useful, even more, when it comes early in the development cycle. Another area where we need your help is Loom. So, please make sure to check the heads-up below that discusses the so-called Virtual Threads "pinning" issue.
[1] https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/22/
[2] https://openjdk.org/jeps/455
[3] https://openjdk.org/jeps/465
[4] https://openjdk.org/jeps/466
## Heads-up: Virtual Threads “Pinning” Issue
Virtual threads became a permanent feature in JDK 21. This feature has been extremely well received by the Java ecosystem but there are still a few pain points. Much has been written about the so-called "pinning" issue that arises with synchronized methods or synchronized statements. The two most common cases are (a) a virtual thread parks (ex. doing socket I/O) while in a synchronized method, and (b) a virtual thread blocks entering a synchronized method because the object's associated monitor is held by another thread. In both cases, the underlying carrier/native thread is not "released" to do other work. Performance and scalability may suffer and in some cases, starvation and deadlock might happen. This recent "Virtual Threads Next Steps" video [5] explains in more details the why's and discusses some potential solutions.
New Loom early-access builds haven been recently published [6]. Those Loom EA builds have changes to the object monitor implementation that do not pin for these two common cases. The Loom team needs your help to test these updated object monitors with code that you know is using virtual threads and with libraries that are heavily synchronized. The goal is to gauge both reliability and performance.
The simplest way to report an issue or feedback is to use the Loom mailing list [7]. For the VM savvy, testing with both `-XX:LockingMode=1` (current default) and `-XX:LockingMode=2` would be extremely helpful as that would exercise the two locking modes currently implemented by the HotSpot VM.
[5] https://inside.java/2024/02/17/virtual-threads-next-steps/
[6] https://jdk.java.net/loom/
[7] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/loom-dev/
## JDK 22 Release Candidates
The JDK 22 Release Candidate builds (builds 36) are available [8] and are provided under the GNU General Public License v2, with the Classpath Exception. The Release Notes are available here [9], and the javadocs here [10].
[8] https://jdk.java.net/22/
[9] https://jdk.java.net/22/release-notes
[10] https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk22/docs/api/
## JDK 23 Early-Access Builds
The JDK 23 Early-Access builds 10 are available [11], and are provided under the GNU General Public License v2, with the Classpath Exception. The Release Notes are available here [12].
### Changes in recent JDK 23 builds that may be of interest:
- JDK-8324287: Record total and free swap space in JFR
- JDK-8275338: Add JFR events for notable serialization situations
- JDK-8324665: Loose matching of space separators in the lenient date/time parsing mode
- JDK-8324066: "clhsdb jstack" should not by default scan for j.u.c locks because it can be very slow
- JDK-8323699: MessageFormat.toPattern() generates non-equivalent MessageFormat pattern
- JDK-8325221: Obsolete TLABStats
- JDK-8322535: Change default AArch64 SpinPause instruction
- JDK-8323746: Add PathElement hashCode and equals
- JDK-8325570: Update to Graphviz 9.0.0
- JDK-8303866: Allow ZipInputStream.readEnd to parse small Zip64 ZIP files
- JDK-8320458: Improve structural navigation in API documentation
- JDK-8324068: Improve references to tags in the Doc Comment Spec
- JDK-8322366: Add IEEE rounding mode corruption check to JNI checks
- JDK-8321545: Override toString() for Format subclasses
- JDK-8324301: Obsolete MaxGCMinorPauseMillis
- JDK-8324632: Update Zlib Data Compression Library to Version 1.3.1
- JDK-8324771: Obsolete RAMFraction related flags
- JDK-8323645: Remove unused internal sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFileCa…
- JDK-8325150: (tz) Update Timezone Data to 2024a
- JDK-8324571: JDK 23 L10n resource files update
Note: Complete list of changes can be found here [13].
[11] https://jdk.java.net/23/
[12] https://jdk.java.net/23/release-notes
[13] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/compare/jdk-23+6...jdk-23+10
## JavaFX Early-Access Builds:
These are early access builds of the JavaFX 22 & 23 Runtime built from openjdk/jfx [14]. These builds enable JavaFX application developers to build and test their applications with JavaFX 22 & 23 on JDK 22 & 23 respectively. Although these builds are designed to work with JDK 22 and above, they are also known to work with JDK 17 and later versions.
The latest early access builds of JavaFX 22 Builds 29 are available [15], under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception. JavaFX 22 API Javadocs [16] are also available.
The latest early access builds of JavaFX 23 Builds 5 are available [17], under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception. JavaFX 23 API Javadocs [18] are also available.
[14] https://github.com/openjdk/jfx
[15] https://jdk.java.net/javafx22/
[16] https://download.java.net/java/early_access/javafx22/docs/api/overview-su...
[17] https://jdk.java.net/javafx23/
[18] https://download.java.net/java/early_access/javafx23/docs/api/overview-su...
## Topics of Interest
- Java Renaissance Keynote
https://inside.java/2024/02/05/java-renaissance/
- Managing Throughput with Virtual Threads - Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2024/02/04/sip094/
- Data-Oriented Programming in Java 21 - JEP Café
https://inside.java/2024/02/08/jepcafe22/
- Does Java 22 Kill Build Tools? - Inside Java Newscast
https://inside.java/2024/02/15/newscast-63/
- JDK 22 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes
https://tschatzl.github.io/2024/02/06/jdk22-g1-parallel-gc-changes.html
- Java 22 Previews Statements Before super(...) and this(...)
https://inside.java/2024/02/01/newscast-62/
- State of jextract
https://cr.openjdk.org/~mcimadamore/panama/jextract_changes.html
- FOSDEM 2024: FFM API - A (quick) peek under the hood
https://inside.java/2024/02/13/fosdem2024-ffm-api/
- FOSDEM 2024: Virtual Threads - Next Steps
https://inside.java/2024/02/17/virtual-threads-next-steps/
- Java Language Update - Early 2024 Edition
https://inside.java/2024/02/18/java-language-update-early-2024-update/
- When Should a Compiler Expand Garbage Collection Barriers?
https://robcasloz.github.io/blog/2024/02/14/when-should-a-compiler-expand...
- Emulating C# LINQ in Java using Code Reflection
https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/linq
- Automatic differentiation of Java code using Code Reflection
https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/auto-diff
## Java Cryptographic Roadmap Update
The Java Cryptographic Roadmap [19] has been updated with the following planned changes.
* Enable XML Signature secure validation mode by default on JDK 11 and JDK 8
- Target date changed from the July 2024 CPU to the April 2024 CPU.
- This change has already been made in JDK 17 and later releases.
* Disable DTLS 1.0 in JDK 17 and 11 with the July 2024 CPU
- This change has already been made in JDK 20 and later releases.
- DTLS is not available in releases prior to JDK 9.
[19] https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html
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That's it for this installment. As usual, if you have issues, or questions, please ping me.
--David
2 months, 2 weeks
Results of Preferred Social Media Platforms Survey for WildFly Community
by Ranabir Chakraborty
Hello everyone,
I hope this email finds you well. Recently, we conducted a survey to gather
all valuable inputs on the preferred social media platforms for the WildFly
community. After a month of running the survey, we received a total of 38
responses from the community members. This feedback is crucial to enhance
the WildFly community engagement and outreach efforts. Below I'm listing
down survey results
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DpWo7JLigdticYqh8G5WjR2UnRbrWr3QS...>
.
*Preferred Social Media platforms:*
1) X - (25/38 Responses) - 65.8%
2) YouTube - (24/38 Responses) - 63.2%
3) LinkedIn - (21/38 Responses) - 55.3%
4) Mastodon - (10/38 Responses) - 26.3%
5) Instagram - (6/38 Responses) - 15.8%
6) Others - (4/38 Responses) - 10.5%
7) Threads - (3/38 Responses) - 7.9%
8) Facebook - (2/38 Responses) - 5.3%
*What type of content do community members want to see?*
1) Project updates and releases - (35/38 Responses) - 94.6%
2) Technical tutorials and guides - (32/38 Responses) - 86.5%
3) WildFly future Roadmap (What's coming soon) - (28/38 Responses) - 75.7%
4) Community highlights and spotlights - (21/38 Responses) - 56.8%
5) Case studies and success stories - (19/38 Responses) - 51.4%
6) Behind-the-scenes development insights - (17/38 Responses) - 45.9%
7) How to get started contributing to a WildFly related project? - (11/38
Responses) - 29.7%
8) Polls and interactive content - (6/38 Responses) - 16.2%
9) Others - (1/38 Responses) - 2.7%
*Additional Feedback*
1) For me WildFly presence in social media is OK. Actually I mainly scan
through WildFly Project News (https://www.wildfly.org/news/) via RSS
subscription :) What I would like to see more is information on CVE (i.e.
security vulnerabilities) as security is very important topic for me and I
mainly learn about it currently from WildFly User or WildFly Developer
mailings groups.
2) Can we have WildFly meet-up just like we have Ansible meet-up and Fedora
meet-up. It would be great to understand more about WildFly, face to face
from the contributors themselves.
Now that we have these insightful results, we'd like to encourage you to
take a moment to look through them and share your thoughts. We have created a
thread in Zulip
<https://wildfly.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/174184-wildfly-developers/to...>
to
discuss more about it so that going forward we all can be on the same page.
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any queries.
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*Ranabir Chakraborty*
Software Engineer (JBoss SET)
<https://red.ht/sig>
2 months, 3 weeks
