Java Development Kit 12, the next version of Java SE, has reached the point where its major feature set is frozen. But one existing proposal in JDK 12, for raw string literals, was removed from the release this week over stability concerns.

The planned Java upgrade is due for production release on March 19, 2019, with a release candidate expected a month earlier. Beta builds of JDK 12 are available from Oracle for Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

You can download the beta JDK 12 builds from the Java.net website.

The open source builds, which are produced to gather feedback, might have functionality that does not make it into the production release, which is due in March 19, 2019. They also might be missing security vulnerability fixes and are not supported by Oracle.

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