Understanding the Java platform's new versioning model

The first version of Java was released as Java 1 in 1996. Since then, there have been several incremental releases, each of which followed a feature-driven release model. Starting with Java 10, Oracle has implemented a new, time-based release model. In this section, we will look at the original model to provide a foundation to show how the Java platform evolved, and look at the new versioning model and why it matters.