On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:58:29 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> ThreadGroup.stop was deprecated since JDK 1.2, deprecated for removal in Java 
> 18, and re-specified/degraded to throw UnsupportedOperationException 
> unconditionally in Java 20. Early in Java 23 seems a fine time to finally 
> remove this method. Corpus analysis of 176 million classes in 485k artifacts 
> found residual usages in 14 artifacts, so not many.
> 
> It would be nice if we could remove Thread.stop at the same time. Sadly there 
> are still quite a few artifacts containing code (and in some cases tests) 
> that reference this method. We will have to come back to this in some future 
> release.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 86623aa4
Author:    Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/86623aa41d09212e4bd366d620d1df9fd16acf93
Stats:     17 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 17 del; 0 mod

8320786: Remove ThreadGroup.stop

Reviewed-by: rriggs, dholmes, jpai

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16828

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