From Java SE 11 to 17 in cube and beyond

Today 2021.09.14 is quite an important day for the Java community. Oracle has today announce the general availability of the expected release of Java 17. This release is one of the Long Term Support (LTS) ones and brings with a big amount of new features, enhancements and improvements. It support ends in September 2029!

Beside of it Oracle has communicate a simpler license model. It means that beginning with JDK17 release on the release are provided under free to use license (GPL) until one year after the next LTS release. This step brings plenty of time to migrate an application to the next LTS version.

Oracle proposed to shorten the LTS release cadence from 3 to 2 years. It means that if accepted we can expect the next LTS release version in September 2023, which will be Java SE 21

More details in an overview of all added enhancements between both LTS versions (from 11 to 17, more then 62) with some examples :

Happy upgrading and migrating !