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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" /><title xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">JDK 8</title><link rel="shortcut icon" href="../../images/nanoduke.ico" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../page.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="../../page.js"><noscript></noscript></script><script src="https://cdn.usefathom.com/script.js" data-site="KCYJJPZX" defer="yes"></script><style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> /**/ TABLE { border-collapse: collapse; } TABLE.milestones TD { vertical-align: top; } TABLE.milestones TH { text-align: left; padding-left: 1em; } TABLE.milestones TD { padding-left: 1em; } TABLE.milestones TR.milestone TD:first-child { padding-left: 0em; } TABLE.milestones TR.milestone TD:first-child + TD { font-weight: bold; } TABLE.milestones TR.milestone TD { white-space: nowrap; } TABLE.milestones TD.note { color: gray; } /**/ </style><style type="text/css"> /**/ DIV.jdknav { font-size: 8pt; float: right; margin-right: 2em; padding-top: .75ex; } DIV.jdktop { font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: bold; } DIV.jdktop + H1 { margin-top: .0ex; } /**/ </style></head><body><div id="main"> <div class="jdknav">« home · <a href="./features">features</a> · <a href="./milestones">milestones</a> · <a href="./builds">builds</a> »</div> <div class="jdktop">JDK 8</div> <p>The goal of this Project was to produce an open-source reference implementation of the Java SE 8 Platform Specification defined by <a href="spec/">JSR 337</a> in the <a href="http://jcp.org">Java Community Process</a>.</p> <p>JDK 8 reached General Availability on 18 March 2014. Production-ready binary distributions based on the JDK 8 code base are available now from <a href="http://oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads">Oracle</a> and will be available soon in most <a href="/install">Linux distributions</a>.</p>  <p>Development of JDK 8 Update Releases is being done in the nearby <a href="../jdk8u">JDK 8 Updates Project</a>.</p> <h2>Content</h2> <p>JDK 8 was the second part of <a href="http://mreinhold.org/blog/plan-b">"Plan B"</a>. The single driving feature of the release was <a href="../lambda">Project Lambda</a>. (<a href="../jigsaw">Project Jigsaw</a> was initially proposed for this release but later <a href="http://mreinhold.org/blog/on-the-next-train">dropped</a>). Additional features proposed via the <a href="/jeps/">JEP Process</a> were included so long as they fit into the overall schedule required for Lambda. Detailed information on the features included in the release can be found on the <a href="features">features</a> page.</p> <h2>Schedule</h2> <p>The original schedule aimed to ship the release in early September 2013, but due to <a href="http://mreinhold.org/blog/secure-the-train">an increased focus on browser-related security issues</a> that date was not achievable. The final schedule, <a href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-April/002336.html"> proposed on 2013/4/18</a> and <a href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-April/002413.html"> adopted on 2013/4/26</a>, was as follows:</p> <blockquote> <table class="milestones" summary="milestones"> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2012/04/26</td> <td>M1</td> <td class="comment"></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2012/06/14</td> <td>M2</td> <td class="comment"></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2012/08/02</td> <td>M3</td> <td class="comment"></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2012/09/13</td> <td>M4</td> <td class="comment"></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2012/11/29</td> <td>M5</td> <td class="comment"></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2013/01/31</td> <td>M6</td> <td class="comment"></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2013/06/13</td> <td>M7</td> <td class="comment"><a href="milestones#Feature_Complete">Feature Complete</a></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2013/09/05</td> <td>M8</td> <td class="comment"><a href="milestones#Developer_Preview">Developer Preview</a></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2014/01/23</td> <td>M9</td> <td class="comment"><a href="milestones#Final_Release_Candidate">Final Release Candidate</a></td> </tr> <tr class="milestone"> <td>2014/03/18</td> <td>GA</td> <td class="comment"><a href="milestones#General_Availability">General Availability</a></td> </tr> </table> </blockquote> <p>Further information on milestone content and the final phases of the release can be found on the <a href="milestones">milestones</a> page.</p> <div class="last-update">Last update: 2014/3/18 16:40 -0700</div> <div class="jdknav">« home · <a href="./features">features</a> · <a href="./milestones">milestones</a> · <a href="./builds">builds</a> »</div> </div><div id="sidebar"><div id="openjdk-sidebar-logo"><a href="/"><img alt="OpenJDK logo" width="91" height="25" src="../../images/openjdk2.svg" /></a></div><div 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