New candidate JEP: 506: Scoped Values

[Iris Clark]

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

  506: Scoped Values
  https://openjdk.org/jeps/506

    Summary: Introduce scoped values, which enable a method to share
    immutable data both with its callees within a thread, and with child
    threads.  Scoped values are easier to reason about than thread-local
    variables.  They also have lower space and time costs, especially when
    used together with virtual threads (JEP 444) and structured concurrency
    (JEP 505).

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Thanks,
Iris