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For these reasons, LTS support editions are only recommendations for production releases including Java SE 8 and Java SE 11. BUT REMEMBER it will not offer long term support (LTS). Update (March 29, 2020): Java 14 is the latest stable release and shows promising new features. Update (February 15, 2021): Java 11 remains most recent version featuring long term support (LTS) while Java 15 offers promising new features. This leaves 3 versions offering LTS (8, 11, and now 17). In 2022, the majority of applications are using Java 8+. While Java 17 offers LTS, it's certainly not unusual if your application is using 11 or even 8. It's important to note that even in 2022, many applications continue to run on Java 8 and Java 11. Java 17 offers some cool new features that may be worth leveraging for your application.That means it's the latest version of Java that will still release updates when newer versions are released later on.

Why not take advantage of latest features? Upgrading shouldn't be difficult when using Docker.

While most applications today are using Java 8 or 11, here are some reasons to consider upgrading to Java 17. As a result, those packages have moved, and this will require changes to package imports.Update (June 23, 2022): Java 17 is the latest version of Java available offering long term support (LTS).

Oracle has chosen the Eclipse Foundation as the new home for the Java Platform Enterprise Edition.

Due to lack of browser support for Java plugins, the Applet API has been deprecated in Java 11.

The “var” keyword only affects local variables, and the Type Inference keeps you repeating the same text over and over again

A developer-friendly keyword “var” was added in Java 11 to help to reduce boilerplate coding.

This is very interesting for serverless-compute and one-offs in Kubernetes

A REPL (read-eval-print-loop) tool, JShell, was added to Java 11 support interactive programming, similar to what is available in Python.

Modularization also enables code to be refactored for easier maintenance, through a self-describing collection of code, data, and resources.

The introduction of modularity in Java 11 to better support scaling down to small computing devices.

However, the biggest differences between Java 8 and Java 11 are: There are always a lot of little things that go into a release of Java, or any product for that matter.