as of

As of release JDK 5, this class has been supplemented with an equivalent class designed for use by a single thread, StringBuilder.

 

From, at, or until a given time. For example, As of five o'clock the store will be closed for inventory , or As of last December our meetings have been open to the public , or As of now I'm not sure how I'll vote . This idiom was first used in business but came into more general use. [c. 1900]

I should weigh great importance on such idioms.