Java 14 GA

#1

Post by koozz » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

Re: Java 14 GA

#2

Post by commandlinefan » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 7:35 PM UTC

Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.

Re: Java 14 GA

#3

Post by chungy » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 7:38 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #2

Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.

Yep, the new rapid-release schedule. Java 8 (grandfathered) and 11 are the current LTS branches, both of which cease getting any kind of support (read: security fixes) in 2024. Java 17 will be the next LTS.

Re: Java 14 GA

#4

Post by koozz » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 7:44 PM UTC

New features already discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477629, but now it's GA.

Re: Java 14 GA

#5

Post by TravelPiglet » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 7:55 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #2

Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.

Well, Java 8 was released 6 years ago and is basically EOL now. We migrated to Java 11 during the fall and finally most third party libraries we use seems to work fully in Java 11.

Re: Java 14 GA

#6

Post by whateveracct » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

> Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector

pour one out for the legend

Re: Java 14 GA

#7

Post by tofflos » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 8:17 PM UTC

When are the Alpine builds getting GA status? The last release of Java to include a build for Alpine was Java 8. Ever since then the Alpine builds have been restricted to early access releases. In the meantime Microsoft has started providing officially supported Alpine builds for .NET Core.

Re: Java 14 GA

#8

Post by p2detar » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 8:18 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #2

Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.

Yeah, although depending on what you’re working on, you’d probably be interested mainly in the LTS releases.

We’re bundling an OpenJDK 11 with our product and while I’ll definitely play around with v14, I think we’ll only upgrade once v17 LTS is out.

Re: Java 14 GA

#9

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 8:30 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #2

Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.

Well, you are still up to date in what concerns Android Java, in fact more than what Android Java supports.

https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features?hl=ru#...

Re: Java 14 GA

#10

Post by vbezhenar » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

p2detar wrote: post #8

commandlinefan wrote: post #2

Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.

Yeah, although depending on what you’re working on, you’d probably be interested mainly in the LTS releases. We’re bundling an OpenJDK 11 with our product and while I’ll definitely play around with v14, I think we’ll only upgrade once v17 LTS is out.

Why would you want to use OpenJDK 11 instead of 13/14? I'm using 8 because it's the latest version working with Windows XP, but other than that, I don't understand why would anyone avoid latest stable version.