<ul><li>The OpenJDK ecosystem saw significant activity during the week of May 12th, 2025 with JEPs moving through various stages for JDK 25.</li><li>JEP 510, the Key Derivation Function API, and JEP 506, Scoped Values, were elevated to Targeted for JDK 25.</li><li>JEP 519, Compact Object Headers, JEP 515, Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling, JEP 514, Ahead-of-Time Command-Line Ergonomics, and JEP 507, Primitive Types in Patterns, were Proposed to Target for JDK 25.</li><li>JEP 520, JFR Method Timing & Tracing, is now a JEP Candidate proposing enhancements to the JDK Flight Recorder.</li><li>The JDK 25 feature set includes JEPs like Stable Values, Structured Concurrency, Vector API, Module Import Declarations, and more.</li><li>The JDK 25 release schedule includes Rampdown Phases, Release Candidate dates, and General Availability set for September 16, 2025.</li><li>JDK 25 is slated to be the next long-term support (LTS) release following JDK 21, JDK 17, JDK 11, and JDK 8.</li></ul>

OpenJDK News Roundup: Key Derivation, Scoped Values, Compact Headers, JFR Method Timing & Tracing

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