Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates

The Java SE support roadmap linked at the bottom has more information. It looks like if you want to continue using updated Oracle JDK commercially, it’ll soon require you to be an Oracle support customer. And if you want to use the latest java and don’t want to buy support, there’s the OpenJDK. It’d be a good idea to start the approval process to use OpenJDK in production now.

Re: Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates

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Post by tinnet » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

spydum wrote: post #3

mrami wrote: post #2

But this is only Java 8, right? Or am I misreading?

Yup. Oracle is trying to push everyone to their rapid releases of java 10, and 11.

Isn't 11 a LTS again?

Re: Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates

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Post by exabrial » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 2:29 PM UTC

Really pleased with the evolution of the language the language in the last few years (other than the 'var local' gaff). Now the there are several builds available for the jdk I think this will press the evolution of the jvm forward. It's a good time to mention https://adoptopenjdk.net and their builds. Competition breeds excellence, and I look forward to a lot of jdk distributions being available!

Re: Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates

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Post by kodablah » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

exabrial wrote: post #9

Really pleased with the evolution of the language the language in the last few years (other than the 'var local' gaff). Now the there are several builds available for the jdk I think this will press the evolution of the jvm forward. It's a good time to mention https://adoptopenjdk.net and their builds. Competition breeds excellence, and I look forward to a lot of jdk distributions being available!

Don't forget https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/