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As Oracle continues to enhance the Java Development Kit, the corporate has stated that it’ll not be pushing back the discharge of Java SE 8. The update continues to be on schedule for its March 18 release date. The general Java 8 release candidate ought to be available starting on January 23.

Despite Oracle crunching to get Java 8 suit for the scheduled deadline, the update will still ship with known bugs that coders will be unable to mend before launch. The corporate is relating them as non-showstopper bugs and says that it’ll be delaying fixes on them to make sure Java 8 hits its March release deadline.

Java 8 was originally scheduled to launch during September 2013, but was delayed due to numerous java security vulnerabilities uncovered during the last year. Oracle has since stated that it’s inside the means of fixing decade-old security problems introduced into Java before the corporate even purchased Sun Microsystems.

Java 8 will bring numerous features to Java, a lot of which have been originally scheduled to be implemented in Java 7. The biggest change could be support for closures (lambda expressions) under “Project Lambda.” Other changes include “Project Coin” implementation that didn’t make it into Java 7, annotations on Java Types, and a Date and Time API. “Project Nashorn” can also be coming with Java 8, though “Project Jigsaw” was delayed to Java 9, meaning that modularization might not be coming to have until the scheduled Java SE 9 release in 2016.

via Java World

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