| Java 1.0 |
Jan 1996 |
|
OS Independant Programming language, Java Virtual Machine |
| J2SE 5.0 |
Sep 2004 |
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Enhanced For Loop, Generics, Enums, Autoboxing |
| Java SE 6 |
Dec 2006 |
|
Scripting Language Support, Improvements to Web Services |
| Java SE 7 |
Jul 2011 |
|
Project Coin (Diamond Operator, Strings in Switch), NIO.2 |
| Java SE 8 LTS |
Mar 2014 |
56 |
Functional Programming, Lambda & Streams, Multiple Inheritance |
| Java SE 9 |
Sep 2017 |
91 |
Modularization - Java Platform Module System |
| Java SE 10 |
Mar 2018 |
12 |
Local Variable Type Inference, List / Set / Map - CopyOf |
| Java SE 11 LTS |
Sep 2018 |
17 |
New HTTP Client API, Nest-based access control, Remove JavaFX |
| Java SE 12 |
Mar 2019 |
8 |
Switch Expressions (Preview) |
| Java SE 13 |
Sep 2019 |
5 |
Text Blocks (Preview) |
| Java SE 14 |
Mar 2020 |
16 |
Switch Expressions (Preview in 12 and 13), Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview) |
| Java SE 15 |
Sep 2020 |
14 |
Text Blocks (Preview in 13), Sealed Classes (Preview), Hidden Classes |
| Java SE 16 |
Mar 2021 |
17 |
Record Classes (Preview in 14, 15), Pattern Matching for instanceof, Sealed Classes |
| Java SE 17 LTS |
Sep 2021 |
14 |
Sealed Classes, Pattern Matching for switch (Preview), Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators |
| Java SE 18 |
Mar 2022 |
9 |
UTF-8 by default, Simple Web Server, Vector API (Second Incubator) |
| Java SE 19 |
Sep 2022 |
7 |
Virtual Threads (Preview), Pattern Matching for switch (Third Preview) |
| Java SE 20 |
Mar 2023 |
6 |
Scoped Values (Incubator), Virtual Threads (Second Preview) |
| Java SE 21 LTS |
Sep 2023 |
15 |
Record Patterns, Unnamed Patterns and Variables, String Templates (Preview) |
| Java SE 22 |
Mar 2024 |
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Pattern Matching (Primitives), Stream Gatherers, Vector API |
| Java SE 23 |
Sep 2024 |
12 |
Pattern Match (Primitives), Module Import, Simplified Main, Stream Gatherers, Vector API |
