An extensible terminal operation, Stream::collect, also is featured, enabling the output of a pipeline to be summarized in multiple ways. Use of streams in the Java ecosystem now is pervasive.

2. the stream you defined there only contains an intermediate operation, and no terminal operation. This means that nothing will actually happen when you run this code, as streams in Java are lazy.

Version 24 version introduces several new language features which collectively simplify code, and provide powerful tools for bytecode manipulation and advanced stream processing.