GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

This latest version of Java, due to arrive as a production release on September 16, has 18 features. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24, a six-month-support release that arrived March 18.

Java 16 introduced basic pattern matching with the finalized instanceof method. For more advanced features, like pattern matching in switch, record patterns, and guarded cases, you need Java 21+.