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June is here, which means it's almost summer for us in the northern hemisphere! With the pandemic still ongoing, it's important to try to find time to recharge and take those vacation days, if at all possible. While you're at work, you can do fun things like reading this newsletter! We've got a variety of content including feature highlights from Java 16 and Java 17 (the upcoming LTS release) as well as links about our latest banter on whether you should comment your code. I, Dalia, annotated this newsletter with collaboration from the wonderful Trisha. In case you're wondering, we, the Java

Wow what a big month! Java 16 is out, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 is out, we had Internation Women's Day, the equinox, Passover and Easter and other holidays. On top of that, it's a year since Europe went into first lockdown. I've been wondering why I'm so exhausted and now I understand - it's not just the last month or two, it's the last year. It's now the 65467543985th day of March 2020, as far as I'm concerned, and it's still not over. Related: this month's Java Annotated Monthly is HUGE, so there are more links and fewer "annotations" this month. Be kind to each other, and be kind to yo