The Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is a set of software tools for development of Java applications. It combines the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), platform core classes and supporting libraries.

Oracle released a security update this week that addresses 17 critical Java vulnerabilities affecting the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

“The February 2012 update to the Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) included a patch to correct a critical vulnerability that can permit the loading of arbitrary code ...

Oracle Restores TZUpdater for JDK 7 Oracle reversed course this week on its earlier decision to cut the popular Time Zone Updater (TZUpdater) tool from the latest version of the Java Development Kit ...

The next LTS release will be Java 21 in 2023. With JDK 17, Oracle will allow free use of Oracle JDK binaries in production for three years, one year past the next LTS.

By Xueming Shen The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences. This is because ...

The patch batch is aimed at security weaknesses in a number of products, including JDK and JRE 7 Update 4 and earlier; JDK and JRE 6 Update 32 and earlier; and JavaFX version 2.1 and earlier ...

Wondering what's included in the new Java 17 LTS release? Here's a list of all the changes made to the JDK between the Java 11 and Java 17 LTS releases.

If you want long-term support from Oracle for a Java release you have to pay for it by using the Oracle JDK build. As mentioned, Oracle will only support OpenJDK builds for six months.

Image: Shutterstock Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK ...