What's new in version 0.53.0

The following new features and notable changes since version 0.51.0 are included in this release:

Features and changes

Offheap support is added for the balanced GC policy

Before the 0.53.0 release, the balanced GC policy used an arraylet representation in the heap to support large arrays that cannot be contained in a region. Now, if the array's data are larger than a region size, the data are stored into a separate area, Offheap.

For more information, see GC processing.

New JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) events are added in this release

In this release, the following new JFR events are added:

For more information, see -XX:[+|-]FlightRecorder.