Oracle is responsible for 34.48% of the JDK distributions that are currently in use today, compared to 75% in 2020.

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

Oracle pointed to its decision last year to accelerate the release schedule for the Java SE Platform and the JDK as part of the motivation for the separation. That accelerated release cadence provides ...

Oracle's move to a six-month Java release cadence and paid subscriptions for Java support has caused some of its enterprise customers to look at alternatives to the Oracle JDK, such as OpenJDK ...

Oracle has released Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1, Oracle's first releases of the Java Development Kit and JavaFX SDK for Mac OS X.

Oracle Restores TZUpdater for JDK 7 Oracle reversed course this week on its earlier decision to cut the popular Time Zone Updater (TZUpdater) tool from the latest version of the Java Development Kit ...

The license for Oracle JDK 17 will revert to the Oracle Technology Network License Agreement in September, and users will have some decisions to make.

Starting in April, Oracle will treat JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as if they were unsigned, which means modern releases of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will block those ...

Oracle is now planning to deprecate the Java browser plugin in its JDK 9 release due in September.