Java 8 was released 2014-03-18. Support from Oracle will end "not earlier than" January 2019.
Resources
Notable New Features
- Lambda expressions.
static
anddefault
methods in interfaces.- Streams.
Optional
(replacing Guava functionality)- Nashorn
- New date and time API (replacing Joda-Time functionality)
- Base64
- Functional programming interfaces (replacing Guava functionality)