Adoptium provides older releases and beta releases for development purposes only. Release archive button that directs to a selection of latest releases, older releases, and nightly beta releases.Other platforms and versions button that directs to a selection of all platform and version options, where you can choose the distribution that best suits your needs from the various formats such as archives, JRE archives and installers.Latest LTS Release button that preselects OpenJDK 17 for the platform that it detects you are using and immediately begins downloading that selection.

As a result, those packages have moved, and this will require changes to package imports.

Oracle has chosen the Eclipse Foundation as the new home for the Java Platform Enterprise Edition.

Due to lack of browser support for Java plugins, the Applet API has been deprecated.

The “var” keyword only affects local variables, and the Type Inference keeps you repeating the same text over and over again

A developer-friendly keyword “var” was added to help to reduce boilerplate coding.

This is very interesting for serverless-compute and one-offs in Kubernetes

A REPL (read-eval-print-loop) tool, JShell, was added to support interactive programming, similar to what is available in Python.

Modularization also enables code to be refactored for easier maintenance, through a self-describing collection of code, data, and resources.

The introduction of modularity to better support scaling down to small computing devices.

However, the biggest differences between Java 8 and Java 11 are: There are always a lot of little things that go into a release of Java, or any product for that matter.

Openjdk 11 install