Thursday, January 3, 2013

Java: Oracle unveils roadmap for JDK 8, the publication of the final version planned for September 2013


Last month, Oracle released at the conference Qcon a roadmap for Java that provides an output of JDK 8 in 2013, 9 in 2015 JDK, JDK 10 in 2017, 11 in 2019 and JDK JDK 12 in 2022. Firm returns today provide details and dates of release of the next version of the development platform. Mathias Axelsson, manager at Oracle JDK versions published on the mailing list jdk8-dev, delivery dates of the various prerelease "Milestone" which will incorporate new features and enhancements kit. The Company therefore plans to publish:





M1: 24 April 2012

M2: June 14, 2012

M3: June 30, 2012

M4: September 1, 2012

M5: November 26, 2012

M6: 30 January 2013



For now, the specifications of features for each step has not yet been published. Delivery M6 mark the end of the full integration of new features and the beginning of the stabilization period JDK 8 to the publication of the final version in September 2013. general test period will take place between February and early early April 2013, then will follow the phase in which priority will be corrected bugs and finally in mid-June 2013, the JDK 8 will enter the optimization period for the release of the final version. developers of the proposed project the introduction of a M7 "Developer Preview" for testing by individual developers on open source projects to avoid problems with JDK 7, including Apache Lucene. On the menu for the next version of Java the introduction of the Lambda project, annotations on all types, a new API "Date and Time API" JavaFX 3.0, JavaScript interoperability, convergence JVM, etc.. Source : OpenJDK

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