Industry experts anticipated that GitHub would expand support for Java --one of the most used ... Last but not least, GitHub also announced the Security Advisory API. This new API will provide ...

To move Java forward, we intend to deprecate the Security Manager for removal in concert with the legacy Applet API (JEP 398)." The original SecurityManager was designed in 1996 as a defense ...

Also, the performance of constructing a java.security.SecureRandom object via new SecureRandom() was improved. Also for the crypto API, a new PKS11 configuration attribute named allowLegacy was ...

The latest long-term support release of standard Java features always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API ... which is a security enhancement, and a preview of ...

Security Manager Removed (JEP 486) Java permanently disables the Security Manager ... Developers are encouraged to migrate to the VarHandle API and the Foreign Function & Memory API, ensuring ...

By a 6-2 vote, the nation's highest court held that Google's copying of Oracle's Java API was fair use. The ruling means Google won't have to pay billions of dollars in damages to Oracle.