JDK 23.0.2 Release Notes

On Windows, the ProcessBuilder has expanded the quoting of argument strings when starting a process to ensure they are recognized by the application as a single command argument. The set of space characters has been expanded from space (0x20) to include all space characters as defined by java.lang.Character.isSpaceChar, which includes all Unicode space separator characters, such as EN-SPACE (0x2002), and line separator and paragraph separator characters.

IANA Time Zone Database has been upgraded to 2024b. This version mainly includes changes to improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal. It also changes one timestamp abbreviation, for the time zone 'MET'. Also Asia/Choibalsan is now an alias for Asia/Ulaanbaatar.

The new tzdata changes also impact some legacy time zone IDs. As per 2024b changes "EST" links to "America/Panama", "HST" links to "Pacific/Honolulu" and "MST" links to "America/Phoenix". To maintain compatibility with the Java SE specification, the java.time.ZoneId.SHORT_IDS Map has not changed. Further details are available at JDK-8342331