In addition: changes of the Java Release Cadence which will impact the deployment of Java binaries on your desktops and server environments. Starting from this point, you’ll not receive any free publicly available patches and updates for Java 8 anymore. In January 2019, Oracle released the last free public available patch and update of Oracle Java 8: Java SE 8u202.
Should we pay to use Java starting from January 2019?
This will keep Java an interesting language for companies, supporting the latest development innovations.
A version with Long Term Support (LTS) every 3 years, so customers do not need to stress 2 times a year to perform a Java upgrade again. Update releases each quarter (for Oracle Java, also hotfixes may be released when necessary, apart from the quarter update releases). New feature releases every 6 months (which is also a new version: 9, 10, 11, …). That’s why since Java 9, following time-based model is in place now: Theoretically, this was all fine, but also the releases were postponed due to important security issues etc… And again, postponed features were only implemented 2 years later, which was simply too late. If there would be a feature which was not ready after 2 years, it would not be implemented and just be further developed for the next release. Initially, they planned to have a new feature release every 2 years. That’s why the Java community decided to switch from feature-driven releases to time-driven releases (somewhere around 2012). However, times were changing and so developers needed to be faster and more innovative. Until a certain point in time, this way of working was acceptable. If the feature was not ready, the release would also be postponed. In a lot of cases, those features also determined the release date. But what is it all about? And do you really need to buy a subscription for Java?įrom the beginning of Java, feature releases were driven by one or more significant features. 
Last few months, there was a lot to do about Java and the fact that future usage would only be allowed via subscription. That shows how easy it is to get a compliance issue now. However, users will probably not read this and just continue upgrading. It shows the user a separate license is needed to keep on using this version. Update September 2nd 2019: inform your JAVA users they should not just install the latest update, which can easily be done by pressing “Install” or “Next” after the following window appears: IMPORTANT: information provided is purely informative and has no legal value
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