Oracle is responsible for 34.48% of the JDK distributions that are currently in use today, compared to 75% in 2020.

This week's Java roundup for July 18th, 2022, features news from Oracle, JDK 18, JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Boot and Spring Security milestone and point releases, Spring for GraphQL 1.0.1, Liberica ...

Starting in April, Oracle will treat JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as if they were unsigned, which means modern releases of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will block those ...

Oracle pointed to its decision last year to accelerate the release schedule for the Java SE Platform and the JDK as part of the motivation for the separation. That accelerated release cadence provides ...

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

Oracle's latest release of its reference implementation of the Java SE platform, Oracle JDK 20, includes seven JEPs comprising thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements.

The next LTS release will be Java 21 in 2023. With JDK 17, Oracle will allow free use of Oracle JDK binaries in production for three years, one year past the next LTS.

Oracle is now planning to deprecate the Java browser plugin in its JDK 9 release due in September.

A new report from the Java vendor Azul claims that 88% of companies are considering moving off of Oracle Java to another alternative as a result of rising costs and restrictive policies from ...

Rolling out in line with Oracle's six-monthly release schedule that began with Java 10 in 2018, JDK 16 includes 17 enhancements that Oracle has touted would continue to further developer productivity.