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