Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has announced the introduction of its own certified OpenJDK builds. With 90% of Fortune 500 companies relying on Java for their backend development, this ...

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) ...

According to the State of the Java Ecosystem report, as of 2024, more than 32% of applications use Java 11 in production. Java 8 is at 28.8%, Java 17 is at 35.4% and Java 21 is at just 1.4%.

Older LTS releases get their support discontinued at some point. Oracle no longer supports Java 8, and you should refer to an alternative OpenJDK vendor. Only a few of them still offer such service.

Version 11 is the current Java LTS release, and organizations that use this version in production will continue to enjoy vendor support for years to come. As for all the non-Java LTS versions released ...

This is a free-to-use license for Java 17. It remains in effect for a full year after the next LTS release. After that, Java 17 will be under the Oracle Technology Network License.

Oracle has released version 21 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first release offering long-term support since JDK 17 in 2021, the final feature set includes 15 JEPs. Three ...

Oracle proposes to shorten the Java Java Long-Term Support (LTS) cadence to two years. The launch of Java 17 just finished the current three-year LTS cadence of Java 11. Acceptance of this proposal se ...