What does Java 17 bring? How difficult will the migration be? Is it worth it? I’ll try to answer those questions in this article. It’s the new Long Term Support version, with Oracle Premier Support to last until September 2026 (at least). Especially since on September 14th, 2021, Java 17 was released. That means there’s a good reason to make the move to a new version.
It doesn’t mean that it won’t receive any new updates, but Oracle’s effort put into maintaining it will likely be significantly smaller than it is right now. In March 2022 Java 8 lost its Oracle Premier Support. However, in December 2022 it was updated with new information regarding the Oracle Enterprise Performance Pack for Java 8.
Disclaimer: this article was originally published on October 22, 2021.
