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Java 8 Released

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @02:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept.

Sir Garlon writes:

"Oracle released version 8 of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to general availability on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. (A release candidate has been available since January 2014.) The release notes include a long list of security improvements as well as support for lambda expressions."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by skullz on Friday March 21 2014, @02:53PM

    by skullz (2532) on Friday March 21 2014, @02:53PM (#19416)

    Awesome! Now I can finally push people to upgrade from Java 5 to Java 6!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @03:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @03:05PM (#19430)

    Damn, brah, you lucky. We can't even move off Java 4 because of intranet crap.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by skullz on Friday March 21 2014, @03:09PM

      by skullz (2532) on Friday March 21 2014, @03:09PM (#19433)

      And those pesky variables named "enum".

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by stroucki on Friday March 21 2014, @09:01PM

    by stroucki (108) on Friday March 21 2014, @09:01PM (#19552)

    I found that Java 6 leaks memory in projects that parse much text (handling it as Strings probably isn't a good idea, I know). Java 5 didn't have the same problem, and Java 7 fixed those issues from Java 6.