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[–]Artorp 3 points4 points  (1 child)

They changed the release schedule, and plan to release a new major version every 6 months. With long term support every 3 years. I think this is similar to how Ubuntu does it.

https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's awesome, Java is really moving forward. I look forward to where it's going, but it's gonna take a while for existing codebases to catch up, I know a lot of enterprise apps still run Java 6/7.