JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 451: Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents

[Mark Reinhold]

2023/5/24 15:07:23 -0400, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 21:
> 
>   451: Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/451
> 
>   Summary: Issue warnings when agents are loaded dynamically into a
>   running JVM.  These warnings aim to prepare users for a future release
>   which disallows the dynamic loading of agents by default in order to
>   improve integrity by default.  Serviceability tools that load agents at
>   startup will not cause warnings to be issued in any release.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 31 May, or if they’re raised and
> then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
> I’ll target this JEP to JDK 21.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 21.

- Mark