Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) ...

This latest version of Java, due to arrive as a production release on September 16, has 18 features. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24, a six-month-support release that arrived March 18.

Long-term support releases are rare birds. If you're still working on Java 8 or Java 11, be sure to download the Java 17 LTS release, test your installation with a simple Java Hello World example and ...

For decades, Java has been the enterprise world's go-to programming language—the reliable, if somewhat verbose, workhorse powering everything from banking systems to e-commerce platforms. But when the ...