https://devops-monk.com/tags/jep/Recent content in Jep on Devops MonkHugoen-usMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java11/java11-overview/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java11/java11-overview/Why Java 11 Matters Java 8 was released in March 2014. It dominated enterprise Java for nearly a decade, but it misses a decade’s worth of language improvements, API modernisation, JVM advances, and security hardening. Java 11 (September 2018) is the first Long-Term Support release after Java 8, and it packages three releases of evolution into a single supported baseline. For most teams the question is not whether to upgrade, but how.