Java Version History

The current stable major version till this article is written is 16. Since the release of Java8, Oracle which now own Java releases every even version in the month of March and odd version in the month of September. Following is the list of all the released versions:

Version	Release Year
JDK Alpha and Beta	1995
JDK 1.0	23rd Jan 1996
JDK 1.1	19th Feb 1997
J2SE 1.2	8th Dec 1998
J2SE 1.3	8th May 2000
J2SE 1.4	6th Feb 2002
J2SE 5.0	30th Sep 2004
Java SE 6	11th Dec 2006
Java SE 7	28th July 2011
Java SE 8	18th Mar 2014
Java SE 9	21st Sept 2017
Java SE 10	20th Mar 2018
Java SE 11	25th Sept 2018
Java SE 12	19th Mar 2019
Java SE 13	17th Sept 2019
Java SE 14	17th Mar 2020
Java SE 15	15th Sept 2020
Java SE 16	16th Mar 2021
Java SE 17	14th Sept 2021