Long in the making, Oracle has finally released JDK (Java Development Kit) 17. This is the first long-term support (LTS) release to see the light of day since JDK 11 three years ago.

Oracle noted that the "OpenJDK Community continues to host the development of Java SE 7 on Mac OS X and JDK 8, the prototype reference implementation of Java SE 8.

Starting with Java 11, Oracle provides two Java Development Kit releases, an OpenJDK build under the GPL open-source license and a commercial Oracle JDK build under a paid-for license.

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit ...

ASF is referring to its ongoing wrangle with Oracle to get a Java SE test kit license (TCK) for its Apache Harmony project, an independently developed open-source implementation of Java.