| Java JDK (Java Development Kit) Releases Dates and Release Differences | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Version | Codename | New Features Introduced In that Release |
| 1996-01-23 | 1.0 | Oak? | Java released to public |
| 1997-02-18 | 1.1 | Sparkler | No longer supported. Added a totally new event model, using Listeners, anonymous classes and inner classes. This is the level Microsoft has trapped many of its customers at. Netscape proprietary RSA code signing. Microsoft proprietary CAB (Cabinet file) code signing. |
| 1997-09-12 | 1.1.4 | Sparkler | |
| 1997-12-03 | 1.1.5 | Pumpkin | |
| 1998-04-24 | 1.1.6 | Abigail | |
| 1998-09-28 | 1.1.7 | Brutus | |
| 1999-04-08 | 1.1.8 | Chelsea | |
| 1998-12-04 | 1.2 | Playground | No longer supported. Added ArrayList and other Collections, added Swing (though the initial release is missing many methods). Added DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) code signing. Added BufferedImage |
| 1999-03-30 | 1.2.1 | (none) | |
| 1999-07-08 | 1.2.2 | Cricket | |
| 2000-05-08 | 1.3 | Kestrel | No longer supported. java.util.Timer, java.lang. StrictMath, Runtime. addShutdownHook, java.awt. Robot, java.awt.print. PageAttributes, java.media.sound (MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and sampled). Hotspot introduced. RMI (Remote Method Invocation) now has the option of using CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ’s IIOP protocol. Added RSA code signing, which quickly effectively obsoleted DSA certificates. |
| 2001-05-17 | 1.3.1 | Ladybird | |
| 2002-02-13 | 1.4 | Merlin | No longer supported. added regexes, assertions and nio. |
| 2002-09-16 | 1.4.1 | Hopper (Grasshopper) | |
| 2003-06-26 | 1.4.2 | Mantis | |
| 2004-09-29 | 1.5 | Tiger | added StringBuilder, java.util.concurrent, generics, enums, annotations, autoboxing, covariant return types, for:each, static import and variable-length argument lists. MacOS for the PowerPC is stuck at version 1.5. . |
| 2006-12-12 | 1.6 | Mustang | System tray, subpixel antialiasing, Document-modal, Application-modal, Toolkit-modal, Applet splash screens, JTable sorting, true double buffering, digitally signed XML (extensible Markup Language) files, JWS (Java Web Start) support for *.ico and *.png, JavaCompiler (ability to invoke javac cleanly), JDBC (Java Data Base Connectivity) 4.0, smart card API (Application Programming Interface), Console. readPassword, improved drag & drop. Apple OS X 10.5 supports JDK 1.8.0_131. pluggable annotations, more. |
| 2011-07-28 | 1.7 | Dolphin | String case lablels. binary literals. Underscores in numeric literals. Multiple Exception catch. |
| 2013-09 | 8.0 | none | closures aka lambda λ lambda expressions, unsigned literals, annotations on Java types, date and time API (to unify Date and Calendar, use 1-based months, deal with multihour DST) tight integration with JavaFX. |
| Future Versions | |||
| 2017-03 | 9.0 | none | better support for multi-gigabyte heaps, better native code integration and a self-tuning JVM. JSON support. Kulla scripting. At one point it included an AOT compiler, but that has probably been dropped. |
| 2018 | 10.0 | none | Primitives behave identically to objects. 64-bit arrays and Collections. Currency.? |
Mac OS (Operating System) programmers are stuck on Java version 1.5. To get Java version 1.6 they need Mac OS X.
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