JDK 18 goes GA next week, and though it's not a Long-Term Support release, it does implement nine JEPs, a few of which, say two of our favorite Java mavens, are well worth a look.

These hints provide more examples of where NetBeans hints can help bring existing Java code bases into a newer and more current version of the JDK.

NetBeans uses its projects' settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac 's use of the -source and -target .