Oracle has started auto-updating JRE 7 to JRE 8. Auto-update was turned on in January 20, 2015 and affects Windows 32-bit and OS X users who use Java's auto-update mechanism. This is not a silent ...

The security upgrade is subject to approval by the Java community at large via the Java Community Process. It is included as part of Java Specification Request 202 , which entered a public comment ...

Java 17, the next Long Term Support (LTS) release, will be released on September 14, 2021. This article explains why you should upgrade your applications and how to do so relatively quickly.