Java 8 Released

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126 Lambda Expressions & Virtual Extension Methods

138 Autoconf-Based Build System

160 Lambda-Form Representation for Method Handles

161 Compact Profiles

162 Prepare for Modularization

164 Leverage CPU Instructions for AES Cryptography

174 Nashorn JavaScript Engine

176 Mechanical Checking of Caller-Sensitive Methods

179 Document JDK API Support and Stability

vm/--

142 Reduce Cache Contention on Specified Fields

vm/gc

122 Remove the Permanent Generation

173 Retire Some Rarely-Used GC Combinations

vm/rt

136 Enhanced Verification Errors

147 Reduce Class Metadata Footprint

148 Small VM

171 Fence Intrinsics

core/--

153 Launch JavaFX Applications

core/lang

101 Generalized Target-Type Inference

104 Annotations on Java Types

105 DocTree API

106 Add Javadoc to javax.tools

117 Remove the Annotation-Processing Tool (apt)

118 Access to Parameter Names at Runtime

120 Repeating Annotations

139 Enhance javac to Improve Build Speed

172 DocLint

core/libs

103 Parallel Array Sorting

107 Bulk Data Operations for Collections

109 Enhance Core Libraries with Lambda

112 Charset Implementation Improvements

119 javax.lang.model Implementation Backed by Core Reflection

135 Base64 Encoding & Decoding

149 Reduce Core-Library Memory Usage

150 Date & Time API

155 Concurrency Updates

170 JDBC 4.2

177 Optimize java.text.DecimalFormat.format

178 Statically-Linked JNI Libraries

180 Handle Frequent HashMap Collisions with Balanced Trees

core/i18n

127 Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data

128 BCP 47 Locale Matching

133 Unicode 6.2

core/net

184 HTTP URL Permissions

core/sec

113 MS-SFU Kerberos 5 Extensions

114 TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) Extension

115 AEAD CipherSuites

121 Stronger Algorithms for Password-Based Encryption

123 Configurable Secure Random-Number Generation

124 Enhance the Certificate Revocation-Checking API

129 NSA Suite B Cryptographic Algorithms

130 SHA-224 Message Digests

131 PKCS#11 Crypto Provider for 64-bit Windows

140 Limited doPrivileged

166 Overhaul JKS-JCEKS-PKCS12 Keystores

web/jaxp 185 JAXP 1.5: Restrict Fetching of External Resources

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