Instead of making tens of thousands of fixes and delivering close to one hundred JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) every few years as we did with yesteryear Major Releases, enhancements are delivered in leaner Feature Releases on a more manageable, predictable six-month schedule. ![]() The rate of change over time in the JDK releases has remained largely constant for years, but under the six-month cadence the pace at which production-ready features and improvements are delivered has vastly improved. Java SE Subscribers get access to Oracle’s Java SE Support and commercial features such as GraalVM Enterprise, Java Management Service and the Advanced Management Console.Īs with previous release, with Java 17, we continue to celebrate the contributions from many individuals and organizations in the OpenJDK Community - we all build Java, together! Oracle has announced plans to shorten the time between future LTS releases, from 3 years to 2 years so you should expect the next LTS to be Java 21 in September of 2023.Īnother important change with Oracle JDK 17 is new simple license terms which will allow companies to use Oracle JDK 17, including the quarterly performance, stability, and security patches, at no cost for at least the next three years, allowing one full year of overlap with the next LTS release. Java 17 is the second long-term support (LTS) under the release cadence announced in 2018. Oracle JDK 18, the next six month cadence release is now scheduled for in March 2022. Oracle now offers JDK 17 for developers, end-users, and enterprises. As an LTS release, Oracle JDK 17 will receive performance, stability and security updates for at least 8 years following the Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) schedule as outlined in the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap. According to an IDC report over ten million developers, representing 75% of full-time developers worldwide, use Java, more than any other language. Java’s ability to boost performance, stability, and security continues to make it the world’s most popular programming language. This level of predictability allows developers to easily manage their adoption of innovation thanks to s steady stream of expected changes. This release is the eighth Feature Release delivered on time through the six-month release cadence. ![]() Oracle is proud to announce the general availabilty of JDK 17.
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