Java 24 has officially landed! Released in March 2025 , JDK 24 continues the evolution of the Java platform with several powerful...

Java 23 , released in March 2025 , is a feature-rich non-LTS  release that continues the refinement of language features and APIs...

Java 22 , released in March 2024 , is another feature release  (non-LTS), and it continues to refine many of the capabilities introduced...

Java 21 is a major milestone —it's the next Long-Term Support (LTS)  release following Java 17, and it finalizes several powerful...

Java 20, released in March 2023 , continues the Java platform’s steady evolution. Like Java 18 and 19, this is a non-LTS (non-Long-Term...

Java 19, released in September 2022, continues the OpenJDK six-month release cadence and serves as a non-LTS feature release , much like...

Java 18, officially released in March 2022, continues the platform’s tradition of steady evolution with a mix of finalized features,...

Java 17 , released on September 14, 2021 , is a major milestone in the Java ecosystem — not just because it's a regular six-month update,...

Java 16 , officially released on March 16, 2021 , delivers another round of powerful features — many of which solidify Java’s...

Released on September 15, 2020 , Java 15  continues the trend of steady, six-monthly improvements to the Java platform. While it’s not a...

Java 14, officially released on March 17, 2020 , marked another strong step in the six-month release cadence initiated by Oracle. While...

Java 13, released in September 2019, brought several enhancements to the language and the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). While it wasn’t a...

Introduction Java 12 brought a host of enhancements aimed at improving developer productivity, code readability, and overall application...

Java 11 introduced several new features, but the most notable and useful to most of our daily work routines resolves around new String...

Java 10 has added an interesting new method to the Optional class: Optional.orElseThrow(). The interesting part is, it's an exact...

Java 10 introduced the ability to create an immutable copy of a collection. The following static methods were added: List.copyOf(),...

Java 10 added a new feature designed to streamline your code to make it less verbose. You can now declare local variables without...

Java 9 made some interesting additions to the Stream API - takeWhile and dropWhile.  Before we go into the details of both, let's take a...

Java 9 introduced several improvements to the Optional class which we will describe below with examples. Factory Method Improvements Java...

Java 8 introduced a new method to Iterator called forEachRemaining. This method takes a Consumer, which represents an operation that...