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Java 18

Status End of Life
Release Date 2022-03-22
EOL Date 2022-09-20
Latest Version 18.0.2.1
Class File Version 62.0
Unicode Version 13.0.0
API Changes Compare to 17 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 1.4 - 1.3 - 1.2 - 1.1 - 1.0
Documentation Release Notes, Language Spec, VM Spec, JavaDoc
SCM git

New Features

Here are all new features in Java 18 by category. There is also of list of all features of all Java releases.

JVM

Language

API

Tools

Should I Upgrade?

Java 18 is end-of-life since 2022-09-20. Unless you have a support contract for this version and a compelling reason to stay on the old version you should definitely upgrade to a newer version with active support.

Please consider upgrading to a current long term support LTS version Java 21 to rely on a maintained platform and get advantage of the latest features and improvements.

Downloads

Vendor Product License Platform Downloads
Adoptium Eclipse Temurin GPLv2+CE
Azul Systems Zulu Builds of OpenJDK 18 GPLv2+CE
BellSoft Liberica GPLv2+CE
IBM Semeru Runtime Open Edition, Version 18 GPLv2+CE
Oracle Oracle JDK 18 Oracle No-Fee
SAP SapMachine 18 GPLv2+CE

Sandbox

Instantly compile and run Java 18 snippets without a local Java installation.

import javax.lang.model.SourceVersion; public class Java18 { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Runtime required for this: " + SourceVersion.RELEASE_18.runtimeVersion()); } }