The JDK 16 release includes plans to stabilize a new Java class type called record. To provide all the benefits of Kotlin and maintain its interoperability with Java, Kotlin is introducing experimental record class support .
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Compatibility. Note that Kotlin 1.4 is not backward-compatible with 1.3 in some corner cases. All such cases were carefully reviewed by the language committee and will be listed in the “compatibility guide” (similar to this one).
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