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The goal of this Project was to produce an open-source referenceimplementation of the Java SE 8 Platform Specificationdefined byJSR 337 in theJava Community Process.
JDK 8 reached General Availability on 18 March 2014.Production-ready binary distributions based on the JDK 8 codebase are available now fromOracleand will be available soon in mostLinuxdistributions.
Development of JDK 8 Update Releases is being done in the nearbyJDK 8 Updates Project.
JDK 8 was the second part of"Plan B". The singledriving feature of the release wasProjectLambda. (Project Jigsaw was initiallyproposed for this release but laterdropped).Additional features proposed via theJEPProcess were included so long as they fit into the overallschedule required for Lambda. Detailed information on the featuresincluded in the release can be found on thefeatures page.
The original schedule aimed to ship the release in earlySeptember 2013, but due toan increased focus onbrowser-related security issues that date was not achievable.The final schedule,proposed on 2013/4/18 andadopted on 2013/4/26, was as follows:
2012/04/26 M1 2012/06/14 M2 2012/08/02 M3 2012/09/13 M4 2012/11/29 M5 2013/01/31 M6 2013/06/13 M7 FeatureComplete 2013/09/05 M8 Developer Preview 2014/01/23 M9 Final ReleaseCandidate 2014/03/18 GA General Availability
Further information on milestone content and the final phases ofthe release can be found on themilestonespage.