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Java 21 major language and API improvements

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

For a more complete overview, follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.

Java 17 major language and API improvements

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. Java ⑧ still had a share of 33%. and Java ⑪ was the dominant release with ~56%.

Java 11 major language and API improvements

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.