Java 21 Gets 15 Major Enhancements And Long-Term Support
SiliconANGLE , Tuesday, September 19,2023
Hewing to an every-six-month release schedule it has maintained for more than five years, Oracle Corp. today announced the availability of Java 21 and designated it as a candidate for long-term support, the first version of Java to receive that credential in two years.
Introduced 28 years ago, Java is the world's fourth most widely used programming language, according to Tiobe Software BV, and is especially popular with enterprise developers. Oracle said there are 60 billion active Java virtual machines in use, with 38 billion of them in the cloud.
'We hear time and time again that customers' choice to invest in Java has paid dividends because it navigates to where they want it to be,' said Georges Saab, senior vice president of development for the Java platform and chairman of the OpenJDK Governing Board. 'Not only do the updates come when intended but the work on new features is very transparent. They can see every change as it's going in. They can see the code reviews that are done and the questions that people are asking.'