Java 26 ships with new cryptography API and HTTP/3 support Oracle released JDK 26, the 17th consecutive feature release delivered under the six-month cadence the project adopted in 2018. The release includes ten JDK Enhancement Proposals spanning language changes, garbage collection improvements, cryptographic tooling, and network protocol support. PEM encoding API targets cryptographic integration JEP 524 introduces a second preview of a PEM encoding API for cryptographic objects. The API converts keys, certificates, and certificate revocation lists into Privacy-Enhanced Mail format and decodes them back into Java objects. The goal is to reduce manual encoding errors and improve interoperability with systems that already use PEM as a standard format for key material exchange. Separately,…