Native Image Committer and Community Meeting 2024-06-27

[christianwimmer]

List of all past and upcoming meetings: #3933

New and Noteworthy

• Call for Lead Maintainers – GraalVM Backports Repositories #8935

• GraalVM for JDK 23 (internal version number is GraalVM 24.1) is branched off. The master branch is now GraalVM for JDK 24 (internal version number will be GraalVM 24.2 - this allows the Java / GraalVM version numbers in sync with GraalVM 25).

• Layered native images:
  [GR-53663] Define image layers API options. #9187
  [GR-54198] Type reached condition for serialization and resources. #9035
  [GR-50176] Implemention of the typeReached conditional for reflection. #8969
  [GR-54137] Persist and reload analysis graph in extension layers
  [GR-54340] Have all cross-layer direct calls use the same cglobal. #9028
  [GR-52121] Inject hashCode in relinked hosted object #9011
  [GR-54129] [GR-53993] [GR-53995] Introduce image layer object file section. #8972
  [GR-54737] Add support for layered thread locals. #9175
  [GR-53669] Add layered stack walking support #9168
  [GR-54712] Add layered string interning support. #9164
  [GR-54709] Introduce ApplicationLayerOnly and MultiLayer Image Singletons. #9132
  [GR-48338] Add options to include all classes from the class path #9150

• Special exceptions for missing configurations:
  [GR-44733] Public flag for missing registration errors. #9036
  [GR-50385] Include all reflection queries for registered classes #9043
  [GR-54241] Introduce reachability-metadata.json to replace the various existing -config.json files #9048
  [GR-54663] Order reachability-metadata.json fields #9104
  [GR-46386] Throw missing registration errors for JNI calls #9044

• Performance
  [GR-52844] Add NI compiler configuration Os. #9006
  [GR-54862] Fix scalability bottlenecks in the static analysis. #9169
  [GR-51974] Track never-null instance fields in the static analysis. #9121

• Usability:
  [GR-49770] Use Glob Patterns In Resource Config File #8715
  [GR-49347] Check if modules contain packages before attempting to open/export #9157

• Compatibility
  [JDK-8333720] Remove sun.misc.Unsafe plugins. #9070

• Cleanups / bugfixes:
  [GR-54647] Remove concept of frozen unsafe accessed fields. #9099
  [GR-45455] [GR-51055] Change how stack walking works. #9033

• Monitoring / tools:
  [GR-54697] Implement debuginfo generation at image-runtime.
  [GR-49517] Add support for Windows x64 unwind info. #9062

Deep Dive: Track never-null instance fields in the static analysis.

See #9121 for details