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Java 8 was released 2014-03-18. Support from Oracle will end "not earlier than" January 2019.

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Notable New Features

  • Lambda expressions.
  • static and default 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)
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