Java 8 (LTS)

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

Resources

• What's New in Java 8 at Leanpub
  
  

Notable New Features

• Lambda expressions.

• Method references.

• 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)

Lambda expressions are foundational for both the Stream and functional programming features.

Nashorn is compatible with ECMAScript 5.1

• See column "JJS 1.8" in Kangax’s ECMAScript 5 compatibility table

• Compare with column "JJS 1.8" in Kangax’s ECMAScript 6 compatibility table