Java 11 major language and API improvements
Java LTS Release Adoption
Before we go into details of the enhancements and additions of Java ⑪ lets briefly look at new relic’s yearly State of the Java Ecosystem 2024 report.
Even though Java ⑪ LTS was released in 2018, in 2020 only ~11% of the projects have been using it. Java ⑧ was still the dominant Java release. In 2023 usage was still at 33% and only dropped to around 28% in 2024.