New Candidate JEP: 421: Deprecate Finalization for Removal

[Iris Clark]

The following JEP with scope "SE" has been moved to the Candidate state:

  421: Deprecate Finalization for Removal
       https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/421

  Summary: Deprecate finalization for removal in a future
  release. Finalization remains enabled by default for now, but can
  be disabled to facilitate early testing. In a future release it
  will be disabled by default, and in a later release it will be
  removed. Maintainers of libraries and applications that rely upon
  finalization should consider migrating to other resource management
  techniques such as the try-with-resources statement and cleaners.

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the JDK Project, but with no commitment to deliver the feature in any
particular release of the JDK Project. Later, the JEP may be moved to the
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specific release of the JDK Project.  For more information about states, see
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    https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/1

A JEP with "SE" scope that reaches the Targeted state will be listed in the
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JDK Project release.

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page:

    https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/18/spec/

Thanks,
Iris