Under Oracle’s stewardship, Java, and the OpenJDK Project where it is developed, have reliably delivered 13 consecutive feature update releases on a perfect 6-month cadence.

On January 23, Oracle replaced its former Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscription with a new Java SE Universal subscription that changes the licensing model to a per employee metric from licenses ...

More importantly, Reinhold, announced Oracle’s decision to improve Java’s security by changing the way Java handles object serialization.

Oracle has announced the release of Java 24, including JDK 24, for developers to download. It introduces new AI and post-quantum crypto capabilities.

Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

Lately, however, a series of licensing and pricing changes for Oracle Java SE, the popular Java runtime and support subscription, has raised concerns across the global Java community. Under the ...

With Oracle’s change, “affected MD-5 signed JAR files will no longer be considered trusted [by the Oracle JRE] and will not be able to run by default, such as in the case of Java applets, or ...

Oracle employees that worked on Java EE have told others in the community that they have been ordered to work on other things. There has also been open talk of some Java EE developers "forking ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes.

Oracle proposes to shorten the Java Java Long-Term Support (LTS) cadence to two years. The launch of Java 17 just finished the current three-year LTS cadence of Java 11. Acceptance of this proposal se ...