I personally think 25 is a big milestone release for the JDK. The FFM stuff is really cool for many reasons. And finally the hello world program is reduced to:

void main() {
    IO.println("Hello, World!");
}

I used to think that making "hello world" simpler wasn't a big deal, but it is important in 3 ways:

1. Makes it less intimidating for new devs to learn Java
2. Helps with changing the obsolete view that Java is verbose
3. Greatly simplifies the sample code you have to write for your libraries

I used to think that making "hello world" simpler -- JEP 512 -- wasn't a big deal, but it is important in 3 ways:

1. Makes it less intimidating for new devs to learn Java
2. Helps with changing the obsolete view that Java is verbose
3. Greatly simplifies the sample code you have to write for your libraries

I see 368598 as having 4 logical groups (steps) of changes:

1. Adding use of GITHUB_TOKEN to avoid rate limits and a couple other minor changes in generate-sources.py
2. Updating generate-sources.py to be able to update sources for EA versions
3. Configuring generate-sources.py to include EA-25 (ea_feature_versions = (25,))
4. Checking in sources.json with EA-25 and adding the EA-25 packages.

In reply to @msgilligan:matrix.org
According to the schedule, today (2025/07/17) it should be in "Rampdown Phase Two", and on 2025/08/07 there will be an "Initial Release Candidate". GA is scheduled for 2025/09/16. So I think it should be stable enough for our purposes. And of course, if we find a bug we can report it upstream so it can get fixed sooner.