Oracle has announced general availability of Java Development Kit (JDK) 14, its reference implementation of the Java 14 programming language spec. Rolling out in line with Oracle's six-monthly ...

The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications.

Oracle has delivered Java 14, an update that brings new developer productivity features to the language and platform, including support for switch expressions and new APIs.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the availability of NetBeans 11.3, the third update of the popular Java-based IDE in its recently implemented quarterly release cycle. This release comes ...

JDK 14 is now in Rampdown Phase One - meaning that the overall feature set is frozen and no further features will be targeted to this release.

Java first appeared in 1995 on Sun’s UNIX-based Solaris operating system, running on SPARC processors. With JDK 14, the Java ports for Solaris and SPARC are now officially deprecated.

In addition to the release of Java 14 in March, the programming language is also celebrating its 25th anniversary.

For JDK 18 and JDK 19, developers are encouraged to report bugs via the Java Bug Database. Spring Framework Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 and 5.3.17 were made available this past week.