Java 11 is getting long in the tooth, so many developers are moving to the next oldest version that's still supported, Java 17. Here's what's different.

The latest long-term support release of standard Java features always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API, a uniform API for pseudo random number generators, and ...

An updated extension pack for Microsoft's open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor boosts Java functionality by adding support for the new Java 12 release, along with new Java code ...

What's new in the Java 17 long-term support release? Here are five new Java 17 features that developers who were stuck on Java 11 will love.

The Java API library is complex in nature, and it easily makes developers go haywire. To compensate for the problem, Java 8 rewrites the whole API from scratch.

Oracle Java SE 12, the latest version of the Java Platform Standard Edition, delivers features to improve programmer productivity, including innovations in garbage collection and code refactoring.

Microsoft's Java in Visual Studio Code has been updated with new features for the Spring Framework, as well as improvements for build tools and debugging.

“Java 8+ application developers now have an SDK-based, cloud-hosted analytics solution that delivers valuable product usage insights to drive design, roadmap, and product lifecycle decisions.” ...

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code gets new functionality provided by Red Hat via its language support extension. Java tooling for the open source-based, cross-platform code editor is ...

These features range from performance enhancements to the HotSpot virtual machine and garbage collection to much-requested (yet subtle) changes that make Java code more reliable, readable, and rapid.