Java 11 Features & Changes
- Dynamic class-file constants
- Epsilon: a no-op garbage collector
- Local-variable syntax for lambda parameters
- Low-overhead heap profiling
- HTTP client (standard)
- Transport layer security (TLS) 1.3
- Flight recorder
- ZGC: a scalable low latency garbage collector (experimental)
- JavaFX, Java EE and COBRA modules have been removed from JDK
- Deprecated the noshron javascript engine
- Unicode 10.0.0 support
A number of features from previous releases were dropped, in particular java applets and java web start are no longer available
