Java 8 Released

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126 Lambda Expressions & Virtual Extension Methods
138 Autoconf-Based Build System
160 Lambda-Form Representation for Method Handles
161 Compact Profiles
162 Prepare for Modularization
164 Leverage CPU Instructions for AES Cryptography
174 Nashorn JavaScript Engine
176 Mechanical Checking of Caller-Sensitive Methods
179 Document JDK API Support and Stability

vm/--
142 Reduce Cache Contention on Specified Fields

vm/gc
122 Remove the Permanent Generation

173 Retire Some Rarely-Used GC Combinations

vm/rt
136 Enhanced Verification Errors
147 Reduce Class Metadata Footprint
148 Small VM
171 Fence Intrinsics

core/--
153 Launch JavaFX Applications

core/lang
101 Generalized Target-Type Inference
104 Annotations on Java Types
105 DocTree API
106 Add Javadoc to javax.tools
117 Remove the Annotation-Processing Tool (apt)
118 Access to Parameter Names at Runtime
120 Repeating Annotations
139 Enhance javac to Improve Build Speed
172 DocLint

core/libs
103 Parallel Array Sorting
107 Bulk Data Operations for Collections
109 Enhance Core Libraries with Lambda
112 Charset Implementation Improvements
119 javax.lang.model Implementation Backed by Core Reflection
135 Base64 Encoding & Decoding
149 Reduce Core-Library Memory Usage
150 Date & Time API
155 Concurrency Updates
170 JDBC 4.2
177 Optimize java.text.DecimalFormat.format
178 Statically-Linked JNI Libraries
180 Handle Frequent HashMap Collisions with Balanced Trees

core/i18n
127 Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data
128 BCP 47 Locale Matching
133 Unicode 6.2

core/net
184 HTTP URL Permissions

core/sec
113 MS-SFU Kerberos 5 Extensions
114 TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) Extension
115 AEAD CipherSuites
121 Stronger Algorithms for Password-Based Encryption
123 Configurable Secure Random-Number Generation
124 Enhance the Certificate Revocation-Checking API
129 NSA Suite B Cryptographic Algorithms
130 SHA-224 Message Digests
131 PKCS#11 Crypto Provider for 64-bit Windows
140 Limited doPrivileged
166 Overhaul JKS-JCEKS-PKCS12 Keystores
web/jaxp 185 JAXP 1.5: Restrict Fetching of External Resources