Java 20 major language and API improvements

Java 20 has been released in March 2023. The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 20. For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents. Continue reading

Java 19 major language and API improvements

Java 19 has been released in September 2022. The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 19. For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents. Continue reading

Java 18 major language and API improvements

Java 18 has been released in March 2022. The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 18. For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents. Continue reading

Java 17 major language and API improvements

Java LTS Release Adoption Before we go into details of the enhancements and additions of Java ⑰ lets briefly look at new relic’s yearly State of the Java Ecosystem 2024 report. Even though Java ⑰ LTS was released in September 2021, in 2023 only ~19% of the projects have been using it. Continue reading

Java 16 major language and API improvements

Java ⑯ has been released in March 2021. The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java ⑯. For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents. Continue reading

Java 15 major language and API improvements

Java ⑮ has been released in September 2020. The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java ⑮. For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents. Continue reading

Java 14 major language and API improvements

Java ⑭ has been released in March 2020. The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java ⑭. For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents. Continue reading