The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released. Editor at Large, InfoWorld | Oksana Shufrych / Shutterstock Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write and maintain concurrent applications, has suffered from a “pinning” issue that arises with synchronized methods or synchronized statements.  Oracle detailed the virtual thread pinning issue this ...