The newest version of the Java Development Kit 23 (JDK) has four new features in the newest release. The two major features which are noteworthy so far is the Vector API, a second preview of the Stream Gatherers, and a preview of primitive types in patterns – such as instanceof and switch.As a friendly reminder, the newest version is due on September 19th. The Vector API has been incubated in previous versions of Java since the release of the Java Development Kit 16 all the way to the latest ver...