This week's Java roundup for March 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, JDK Mission Control 8.2, Amazon Corretto 18, BellSoft LibericaJDK 18, multiple Spring milestone and point releases ...

This latest version of Java has 18 features. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24, a six-month-support release that arrived March 18.

Java 18 (Oracle JDK 18) delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including nine enhancements to the platform that will further improve developer productivity, the ...

BellSoft, one of the largest external contributors to OpenJDK announced on Tuesday a significant upgrade to its Liberica JDK ...

Developers can download and install JDK 24 for Java SE from the OpenJDK site. Since Mar. 18, 2025, this version of the JDK is in general availability, meaning it is ready for production use.

According to the State of the Java Ecosystem report, as of 2024, more than 32% of applications use Java 11 in production. Java 8 is at 28.8%, Java 17 is at 35.4% and Java 21 is at just 1.4%.

As Oracle’s market share has gone down, Amazon’s has gone up. In 2020, only 2.18% of the JDK distributions were provided by Amazon, but now they provide 22.04% of JDK distributions.

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.