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Java 11 and 12 – New Features
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Java 11 and 12 – New Features

by Mala Gupta
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time-based release versioning

The feature of time-based release versioning revises the version-string scheme of JDK SE platform, for current and future time-based release versions.

The proposed format is as follows:

$FEATURE.$INTERIM.$UPDATE.$PATCH

The following are the details of the elements used in the preceding string:

  • $FEATURE: With the new (and strict) six-month release cadence, this value is incremented every six months. The JDK version released on Mar 2018 was 10, the version released in Sep 2018 was JDK 11. JDK 12 released in Mar 2019, and so on.
  • $INTERIM: With the six-month release cadence, there aren't any interim releases. However, this element is retained for potential future use cases.
  • $UPDATE: This element represents an update, ...
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ISBN: 9781789133271