
Survey results indicate that security is a major concern for Java developers, and for good reason. Discovering the Log4j vulnerability shined a glaring spotlight on code vulnerabilities in Java applications and elsewhere. The next LTS release will be Java 21, currently targeted for September 2023. These results jive with research from New Relic showing that Java 11 is becoming the current LTS (long-term support) standard, gradually supplanting Java 8. Java 17 is the newest LTS release, replacing Java 11 under the two-year release cadence, and will soon become the baseline upgrade for Java. Twenty-six percent of respondents report they are on version 17 or newer 21% are in the process of upgrading and 37% are planning to upgrade. Vaadin's research indicates that developers using Java have kept up with version updates so far.
