Oracle is looking to delay until next year the planned release of Java 8, citing a renewed focus on security, Oracle’s Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group, said in a blog post on ...

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Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces the availability of Java SE 8 for the MIPS architecture. This new release is part of an ongoing collaboration between Imagination and Oracle intended to ...

Java runtime maker Azul Systems this week released a new version of its build of the OpenJDK known as Zulu. The free and open source Zulu 8.0 is compatible and compliant with the recently launched ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in the newest release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8).

One-time licenses won’t be available for Java SE 8 or later, but separate support contracts also go away Oracle has revamped its commercial support program for Java SE (Standard Edition), opting for a ...

"Java SE 8 is going through the End of Public Updates process for legacy releases. Oracle will continue to provide free public updates and auto updates of Java SE 8, until at least the end of December ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

Red Hat has assumed stewardship from Oracle over OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11, which strengthens Red Hat's support for the Java community -- particularly enterprise Java developers. OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...