자바의 버전 역사

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구 블로그에 남겨둔 기록을 옮겨왔다.

2020년 현재는 벌써 자바15가 출시된 상태이다. 조만간 현행화를 해야겠다.

Java version history | Wikipedia (opens new window)

• JDK Beta (1995)
• JDK 1.0 (1996)
• JDK 1.1 (1997)
• J2SE 1.2 (1998)
• J2SE 1.3 (2000)
• J2SE 1.4 (2002), codename Merlin
  • IPv6 support
  • Non-blocking IO (NIO)
  • Logging API
  • Integrated XML parser
• J2SE 5.0 (2004), codename Tiger
  • Generics (JSR 14)
  • Annotations
  • Autoboxing/unboxing
  • Enumerations
  • Varargs
  • for each
• Java SE 6 (2006), codename Mustang
  • Improved Web Service support through JAX-WS (JSR 224)
  • JDBC 4.0 support (JSR 221)
  • Upgrade of JAXB to version 2.0
• Java SE 7 (2011), codename Dolphin
  • Strings in switch
  • Automatic resource management in try-statement
  • Concurrency utilities under JSR 166
  • New file I/O library (defined by JSR 203)
  • NIO.2
• Java SE 8 (2014)
  • Project Nashorn, 자바 스크립트 실행
  • Date and Time API
  • Statically-linked JNI libraries
  • Remove the permanent generation
  • Lambda expression
• Java SE 9 (2017)
  • Project Jigsaw (Java Module System)
  • jshell: The Java Shell (a Java REPL)
  • Interface private method
  • Reactive stream API
  • HTTP/2 Client (Sync & Async)