Five years in the making, a Visual Studio Code extension providing Java language support from Red Hat has shipped in version 1.0.

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19.

A new feature of the Azul Vulnerability Protection service identifies unused code in production Java applications, aiming to ease maintenance for developers.

Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more.