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Commercial support officially ended in December 2018.

Lambdas (Java 8), Modules (Java 9), and Records (Java 16). java 6.0

Oracle ended public updates for Java 6 in 2013. Commercial support officially ended in December 2018

Enhancements to Swing included the GroupLayout manager (originally from NetBeans) and improved look-and-feel for Windows and LCD screens. Became default much later (Java 9)

This update simplified database connectivity, introducing features like auto-loading of drivers and enhanced SQLException handling.

| Feature | What it did | |---------|--------------| | | Introduced low-pause, region-based GC. Became default much later (Java 9). | | Escape Analysis | JVM could allocate objects on the stack instead of the heap if they didn't escape a method. Huge performance win. | | Synchronization optimizations | Lock coarsening, lock elision, biased locking. | | Improved JVM TI (Tool Interface) | Better profiling, debugging, and monitoring tools. |

For the first time, you could (local or remote) without any special agent.