7 Reasons to Migrate from Java 8 to Java 17

Hari Ohm Prasath
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readMay 11, 2023

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Unlocking the full potential of modern Java development

Introduction

From Java 8 to Java 18, Java has come a long way, there have been a lot of changes in the Java ecosystem since Java 8. The most notable change is the release cadence of Java. Java 8 was released in 2014, and Java 17 got released in 2021. That’s a gap of 7 years between the two releases. But now Java is released every six months so that you can expect a new version of Java every six months. This is a massive change for the Java ecosystem, as it allows…

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