Java 17 now developers' favorite brew, with Eclipse Adoptium proving popular, too
The Register, Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
New Relic report also sees accelerated uptake of freshly-ground JDK releases
The nearly three-year-old Java 17 has overtaken Java 11 as the most widely used long-term support (LTS) version of the programming language, according to app monitors at New Relic.
Major users of Java, specifically large corporates, tend to be cautious with their technology stack. Shifting to a version of Java released in September 2021 therefore looks positively avant garde.
The latest LTS version of Java - meaning it gets support for up to eight years rather than the six month window for non-LTS releases - is Java 21, released in September 2023. New Relic found it is used in production by just 1.4 percent of applications.