New features, examples, release notes of all Java Releases from past till date in one place. Refer below table.
| Java Version | Features |
|---|---|
| Java 13 (September 2019) Oracle Java 13 Release Notes | ⦿ Text Blocks as Strings. Multiline, indented preformatted texts as String Example |
| Java 12 (March 2019) Oracle Java 12 Release Notes | ⦿ Switch case improvements i.e. Switch expression, yield keyword, optional fall through i.e. avoid break. Example |
| Java 11 (September 2018 - October 2018) Oracle Java 11 Release Notes | ⦿ Run program without "javac" i.e direclty "java HelloWorld.java". Example ⦿ Licensing changes in Oracle JDK. Details from Oracle ⦿ Important removals - Webstart, JavaFX, Java Mission Control (JMC), Thread.destroy() and Thread.stop(Throwable) Methods ⦿ New Garbage Collectors - Z Garbage Collector, Epsilon GC |
| Java 10 (March 2018 - September 2018) Oracle Java 10 Release Notes | ⦿ Local variable type inference - var type. Example ⦿ APIs for Creating Unmodifiable Collections |
| Java 9 (September 2017 - March 2018) Oracle Java 9 whats new Oracle Java 9 features | ⦿ Module System (Next level of encapsulation). Example ⦿ Underscore character is not a legal name. Example ⦿ Private interface methods. Example ⦿ Factory methods for collections. Example ⦿ iterate, takeWhile, dropWhile in Stream. Example ⦿ Reactive Streams based Flow API. Example |
| Java 8 (March 2014 - January 2019) Oracle Java 8 whats new | ⦿ Lambda expressions. Example ⦿ Stream API for collections. Example ⦿ Method references. Example ⦿ Default Method implementation in interfaces. Example ⦿ Comparator improvements. Example ⦿ New Date Time API. Example |
| Java 7 (July 2011 - April 2015) Oracle Java 7 Release Notes | ⦿ Strings in switch statement ⦿ Try with resources ⦿ Multi exception catching. Example ⦿ Generic methods. Example ⦿ Introduced java.lang.invoke package for dynamic language support. Example ⦿ New Garbage Collectors - GarbageFirst (G1) |
| Java 6 (December 2006 - April 2013) Oracle Java 6 features | ⦿ New collection interfaces like Deque, NavigableSet, NavigableMap , ConcurrentNavigableMap. Example |
| Java 5 (September 2004 - November 2009) Oracle Java 5 Release Notes | ⦿ Generics ⦿ Enhanced for loop ⦿ Autoboxing / Unboxing ⦿ Typesafe enums ⦿ Varargs ⦿ Static Imports ⦿ Annotations ⦿ Introduced java.util.concurrent.* |