Java Development Kit version 25, the latest long-term support release..
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Stream Gatherers are basically custom superpowers for your Stream API (they return another Stream and mostly just chill until a terminal operation shows up to actually do the work, basically intermediate operations). This JEP is like giving the Stream API steroids: now you can bend streams to your will in ways that would make previous Java developers weep tears of pure joy.
Java 25 drops on September 25 this year (as of August 18, when I'm writing this). Will enterprises immediately jump on the Java 25 hype train? LOL, nope. They'll probably stick with Java 8 until the heat death of the universe (there are tons of breaking changes from Java 21 to Java 25, so without a solid migration plan, your services will explode spectacularly), but hey, we can still have some fun exploring what's new!
Java's getting a makeover, and honestly, it's about time. Let's see how the JDK is slowly but surely making Java less intimidating for folks who just want to print "Hello, World!" without summoning the ancient spirits of enterprise development.