April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Prior to Java 9, the release numbers did not follow industry standard versioning--semantic versioning. For example, at the time of writing, the last four JDK releases were:
Oracle has embraced semantic versioning for Java 9 and beyond. For Java, a major-minor-security schema will be used for the first three elements of Java version numbers: