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Java 18

Status End of Life
Release Date 2022-03-22
EOL Date 2022-09-20
Latest Version 18.0.2.1
Class File Version 62.0
API Changes Compare to 17 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 1.4 - 1.3 - 1.2 - 1.1
Documentation Release Notes, Language Spec, VM Spec, JavaDoc
SCM git

New Features

Here are all new features in Java 18 by category. There is also of list of all features of all Java releases.

JVM

Language

API

Tools

Downloads

Vendor Product License Platform Downloads
Adoptium Eclipse Temurin GPLv2+CE
Azul Systems Zulu Builds of OpenJDK 18 GPLv2+CE
BellSoft Liberica GPLv2+CE
Oracle Oracle JDK 18 Oracle No-Fee
SAP SapMachine 18 GPLv2+CE

Sandbox

Instantly compile and run Java 18 snippets without a local Java installation.

import javax.lang.model.SourceVersion; public class Java18 { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Runtime required for this: " + SourceVersion.RELEASE_18.runtimeVersion()); } }