“One of the biggest challenges Java developers face today is that their organization only allows them to use the latest LTS release. “Over the last three years we’ve heard how much developers love the latest features, and we’ve seen the ecosystem truly embrace the six-month release cadence,” said Georges Saab, vice president of development, Java Platform Group, Oracle. Oracle will provide customers with security, performance, and bug-fix updates for Java 17 through at least September 2029. Oracle is proposing that the next LTS release should be Java 21 and made available in September 2023, which will change the ongoing LTS release cadence from three years to two years.īacked by the Oracle LTS and Java SE Subscription, customers can migrate to Java 17 at the pace that best meets their needs. Oracle is collaborating with the Java developer community and the JCP on enhancing LTS scheduling to give organizations more flexibility on when, or if, they want to migrate to a newer Java LTS version. Oracle will also continue providing Oracle OpenJDK releases under the open-source GPL, as it has since 2017. Oracle JDK 17 and future JDK releases are provided under a free-to-use license until a full year after the next LTS release. Since the previous JDK 11 LTS released three years ago, over 70 JEPs have been implemented.

Java 17 is the latest long-term support (LTS) release under Java’s six-month release cadence and is the result of extensive collaboration between Oracle engineers and other members of the worldwide Java developer community via the OpenJDK Community and the Java Community Process (JCP). Java 17 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security updates, as well as 14 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) that further improve the Java language and platform to help developers be more productive.

Oracle released Java 17, the latest version of the world’s number one programming language and development platform.

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