Java 22 has been released in March 2024.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 22.
For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.
Java 21 has been released in September 2023.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 21.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Java ⑧ still had a share of 33%. and Java ⑪ was the dominant release with ~56%.
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.
