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.
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.
Java ⑬ has been released in September 2019.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java ⑬.
For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.
Java ⑫ has been released in March 2019.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API and the Java language introduced with Java ⑫.
For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.
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.
Java ⑩ has been released in March 2018.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API and the Java language introduced with Java ⑩.
For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.
Java ⑨ has been released in September 2017 and is the first release starting a new release cycle with a new release every 6 months.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API and the Java language introduced with Java 9.
