Next Java long-term support release delivers thousands of updates, further improving the language and platform to help developers be more productive Oracle JDK 17 gives customers security ...

Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 17 this week, the second Long-Term Support release since JDK 11.

Java 17, also known as JDK 17, has overtaken Java 11, from September 2018, as the most-used LTS version.

The new Java 17 release contains plenty of new features that will intrigue developers. Here are five features that should push developers off the Java 11 LTS to JDK 17.

Asked which JDK (Java Development Kit) programming language was being used in their main application, 37% of respondents in the Perforce-sponsored survey answered Java 8.

JDK (Java Development Kit) 19 arrives about six months after Java 18 and exactly a year after Java 17 – the most recent long-term support (LTS) release of Java.

JDK 18 goes GA next week, and though it's not a Long-Term Support release, it does implement nine JEPs, a few of which, say two of our favorite Java mavens, are well worth a look.