At the time, Oracle broke out of its scheduled 4-month Java patching cycle in order to patch a vulnerability that was being actively exploited by hackers.

Toolmakers large and small bring out tools that add life-cycle management for Java developers.

Java 10 is the first release on the new six-month schedule, and it builds incrementally on the significant new functionality that appeared in Java 9, which had a multiyear gestation period.

Oracle proposes to shorten the Java Java Long-Term Support (LTS) cadence to two years. The launch of Java 17 just finished the current three-year LTS cadence of Java 11.