The newest version of the Java Development Kit 23 (JDK) has four new features in the newest release. The two major features which are noteworthy so far is the Vector API, a second preview of the Stream Gatherers, and a preview of primitive types in patterns – such as instanceof and
That’s not really true despite what Oracle claims. Even without dropping money for Oracle’s 2030 support, there’s been 9 releases to OpenJDK 8 so far in 2024. Amazon has guaranteed OpenJDK 8 LTS through 2026 as “corretto” for justifying it to corporate compliance teams.
Everyone really should upgrade but it’s going to be several years yet before it’s an actual security risk.