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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: 2, Interesting) by rochrist on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:33PM

    by rochrist (3737) on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:33PM (#19770)

    I expect this stems from the days when programs were run as jobs on large timeshare systems, and the STOP RUN refers to stopping the run of this particular job.

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