A few months from now in March 2022, Java 8 will lose its Oracle Premier Support. It doesn’t mean that it won’t receive any new updates, but Oracle’s effort put into maintaining it will likely be significantly smaller than it is right now.
That means there’ll be a good reason to make the move to a new version, especially since on September 14th, 2021, Java 17 was released. This is the new Long Term Support version, with Oracle Premier Support to last until September 2026 (at least). What does Java 17 bring? How difficult will the migration be? Is it worth it? I’ll try to answer those questions in this article.