


With no intent to implement JEP 436, Virtual Threads (Second Preview), in 32-bit platforms, removing support for this port will enable OpenJDK developers to accelerate development of new features. This feature JEP proposes to deprecate the Windows x86-32 port with the intent to remove it in a future release.

JEP Draft 8303167, Deprecate the Windows x86-32 Port, has been introduced by George Adams, senior program manager at Microsoft, this past week. This week's Java roundup for February 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM, GlassFish 7.0.2, point and milestone releases of numerous Spring projects, Helidon 4.0.0-ALPHA5, NetBeans 17, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M3, 10.1.6, 9.0.72 and 8.5.86, Apache Log4j 2.20.0, JHipster Lite 0.28.0, JobRunr 6.1.0, JBang 0.104.0, and Gradle 7.6.1 and 6.9.4.
