The way pull requests and commits work in the OpenJDK repository -- a bot squashes each pull request into one commit: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/31120#issuecomment-51378...

The final singular commit is cc278db (8389219: Implement JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview), 2026-07-31) https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/cc278dbb8a1ca0754d5842...

It's a project years in the making.

Yes, massive respect for that type of perseverance on long term, important changes.

Seems like a horrible way to work. Why could this not have landed as a large amount of smaller PRs in a more incremental fashion, maybe Java users could have gotten some value out of it earlier.