Oddly, JDK 8 will get public updates even after updates end for the later JDK 9 and JDK 10 Java releases Oracle has extended public updates for Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 until at least January 2019 ...

You can't blame Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, for showing a bit of frustration with Java developers who insist on calling methods that have been deprecated for ...

JDK 27, due in September, kicks off with a post-quantum hybrid key exchange proposal to bolster the security of network ...

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Oracle today announced the general availability of JDK 11, the latest update of the reference implementation of the Java SE Platform, and the first Long Term Support (LTS) update under the company's ...

The vast majority of developers who use a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) language still use Java, but a sizable chunk of the population is shifting to Kotlin, a JVM-compatible language developed by ...

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Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

Oracle released Java SE 7 Update 4 this week, which finally gives Mac owners the means to receive critical Java security patches at the same time they're available for users of Windows and Linux ...