Java Versions Cheatsheet
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| Version | Year | Features added |
|---|---|---|
| JDK Beta | 1995 | |
| JDK 1.0 | January 1996 | |
| JDK 1.1 | February 1997 | AWT, JDBC, RMI, JIT |
| J2SE 1.2 | December 1998 | Swing, Collections |
| J2SE 1.3 | May 2000 | Hotspot JVM, JNDI, JPDA |
| J2SE 1.4 | February 2002 | Regular Expressions, Non blocking I/O, JAXP, Exception Handeling |
| J2SE 5.0 | September 2004 | Generics, Enumaration, static imports, Varargs, for each, Auto boxing |
| Java SE 6 | December 2006 | JAX-WS, JDBC 4, Supports Annotations, JAXB 2.0, compiler level performance |
| Java SE 7 | July 2011 | Strings in switch, Concurrency utilities, java.nio packages |
| Java SE 8 | March 2014 | lambda expressions, functional interfaces, new Date api, Streams, JavaFX |
| Java SE 9 | September 2017 | Modularization, jshell, Reactive Streams |
| Java SE 10 | March 2018 | Local-variable type inference, Java-based JIT compiler, Parallel full GC for G1, Thread-local handshakes, Heap allocation on alternative memory devices |
| Java SE 11 | September 2018 | Dynamic class-file constants, Epsilon: a no-op garbage collector, Local-variable syntax for lambda parameters, HTTP client |
| Java SE 12 | March 2019 | Switch Expressions, Default CDS archives, Microbenchmark, |
| Java SE 13 | September 2019 | FileSystems.newFileSystem() Method, DOM and SAX Factories with Namespace Support, Text Blocks, Switch Expressions Enhancements |
| Java SE 14 | March 20202 | Switch Expressions, Helpful NullPointerExceptions, JFR Event Streaming, Remove the Pack200 Tools and API |
| Java SE 15 | September 2020 | EdDSA Algorithm, Hidden classes, Removed Nashorn JS engine |
| Java SE 16 | March 2021 | Records, Vector API, Alpine Linux Port |
| Java SE 17 (LTS) | September 2021 | Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal, Sealed Classes, Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals |
| Java SE 18 | March 2022 | UTF-8 By Default, Simple Web Server, Deprecate Finalization for Removal |
| Java SE 19 | September 2022 | New System Properties for System.out and System, New Methods to Create Preallocated HashMaps |