Java 8 - foojay

The information below presents data on Java 8, made available by Marc R. Hoffmann, from javaalmanac.io, provided under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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Java 8

version: 8 Release date: 2014-03-18 EOL date: 2026-05 bytecode: 52.0

Documentation: vm , lang , api , notes SCM: hg

Distro	TCK ¹	Vendor	License	Platforms
AdoptOpenJDK		AdoptOpenJDK	GPLv2+CE	aix-ppc64 alpine-x64 linux-arm32 linux-arm64 linux-ppc64le linux-s390x linux-x64 macos-x64 solaris-sparcv9 solaris-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64
Azul Prime		Azul Systems	Commercial	linux-x64
Corretto 8		Amazon	GPLv2+CE	alpine-x64 linux-arm64 linux-x64 macos-arm64 macos-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64
Dragonwell 8		Alibaba	GPLv2+CE	linux-arm64 linux-x64 windows-x64
Eclipse Temurin		Adoptium	GPLv2+CE	aix-ppc64 alpine-x64 linux-arm32 linux-arm64 linux-ppc64le linux-s390x linux-x64 macos-x64 solaris-sparcv9 solaris-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 8		IBM	Commercial	linux-ppc64 linux-ppc64le linux-s390x linux-x86 linux-x64
Liberica		BellSoft	GPLv2+CE	alpine-arm64 alpine-x64 linux-arm64 linux-ppc64le linux-x86 linux-x64 macos-arm64 macos-x64 solaris-sparcv9 solaris-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64
OpenJDK Upstream Builds		AdoptOpenJDK	GPLv2+CE	linux-arm64 linux-x64 windows-x64
Oracle JDK 8		Oracle	Commercial	linux-arm32 linux-arm64 linux-x86 linux-x64 macos-x64 solaris-sparcv9 solaris-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64
Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8		Red Hat	GPLv2+CE	windows-x86 windows-x64
Semeru Runtime Open Edition, Version 8		IBM	GPLv2+CE	aix-ppc64 linux-arm64 linux-ppc64le linux-s390x linux-x64 macos-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64

Technology Compatibility Kit

New Features

JVM

Remove Permanent Generation ( JEP 122 )

Language

Lambda Expressions ( JSR 335 )
Default Methods in Interfaces ( JSR 335 )
Effectively Final Variables ( JSR 335 )
Type Use Annotations ( JEP 104 )
Repeating Annotations ( JEP 120 )

API

Streams (java.util.stream) ( JEP 107 )
Lambda APIs (java.util.function) ( JEP 109 )
Date Time (java.time) ( JSR 310 , JEP 150 )

New APIs

Compare to Java:

base: version: 8 build 8.0.322

target: version: 7 build 1.7.0_80