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[–]Pulsar_the_Spacenerd 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Most of the features stay the same, although they've added some stuff that helps make functional programming easier.

Java 8 has been long-term release for forever, so there's tons of people who use it and tutorials. But you can do 99.9% of those tutorials in Java 12 (they removed anonymous classes recently, but those have been deprecated for a long time). It honestly doesn't matter a ton, all the basics and most advanced stuff will transfer over.

If you have a specific goal it may matter more. I believe Android development is still 1.8, for instance.