Java Web Start included (Java Web Start was first released in March 2001 for J2SE 1.3) (specified in JSR 56).Integrated security and cryptography extensions ( JCE, JSSE, JAAS).Integrated XML parser and XSLT processor ( JAXP) (specified in JSR 5 and JSR 63).Image I/O API for reading and writing images in formats like JPEG and PNG.Non-blocking I/O (named NIO) (specified in JSR 51).Internet Protocol version 6 ( IPv6) support.Exception chaining allows an exception to encapsulate original lower-level exception.Regular expressions modeled after Perl regular expressions.The Februrelease was the first release of the Java platform developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 59. Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 19 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 18 (OpenJDK currently maintained by SAP) Īt least September 2027 for Microsoft Īt least September 2027 for Eclipse Adoptium Older version, yet still maintained: Java SE 17 (LTS) Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 16 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 15 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 14 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 13 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 12 Older version, yet still maintained: Java SE 11 (LTS)Īt least October 2024 for Eclipse Adoptium Īt least September 2027 for Amazon Corretto Īt least October 2024 for Microsoft Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 10 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 9 (OpenJDK currently maintained by Red Hat) ĭecember 2030 for Oracle (non-commercial)Īt least May 2026 for Eclipse Adoptium Īt least May 2026 for Amazon Corretto Older version, yet still maintained: Java SE 8 (LTS) Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 7 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 6 Old version, no longer maintained: Java SE 5 Old version, no longer maintained: J2SE 1.4 Old version, no longer maintained: J2SE 1.3 Old version, no longer maintained: J2SE 1.2 Old version, no longer maintained: JDK 1.1 Old version, no longer maintained: JDK 1.0 Java 19 General Availability began on September 20, 2022. Java 17 the latest (3rd) LTS was released on September 14, 2021. For Java 11, long-term support will not be provided by Oracle for the public instead, the broader OpenJDK community, as Eclipse Adoptium or others, is expected to perform the work. Java 8 LTS the last free software public update for commercial use was released by Oracle in March 2022, while Oracle continues to release no-cost public Java 8 updates for development and personal use indefinitely. Regarding Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap, version 19 is the latest one, and versions 17, 11 and 8 are the currently supported long-term support (LTS) versions, where Oracle Customers will receive Oracle Premier Support. Some programs allow conversion of Java programs from one version of the Java platform to an older one (for example Java 5.0 backported to 1.4) (see Java backporting tools). Entire new APIs, such as Swing and Java2D, have been introduced, and many of the original JDK 1.0 classes and methods have been deprecated.

In addition to the language changes, other changes have been made to the Java Class Library over the years, which has grown from a few hundred classes in JDK 1.0 to over three thousand in J2SE 5. This proposal took effect for all following versions, and is still the current release schedule. In September 2017, Mark Reinhold, chief Architect of the Java Platform, proposed to change the release train to 'one feature release every six months' rather than the then-current two-year schedule. The language is specified by the Java Language Specification (JLS) changes to the JLS are managed under JSR 901. Since J2SE 1.4, the evolution of the Java language has been governed by the Java Community Process (JCP), which uses Java Specification Requests (JSRs) to propose and specify additions and changes to the Java platform. The Java language has undergone several changes since JDK 1.0 as well as numerous additions of classes and packages to the standard library. This article is about the Java programming language.

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