If you successfully download from the new portal, what language features await? Using JDK 21 (the latest LTS as of this article) as the benchmark for “new yet stable,” here are three game-changers:

(or possibly the legacy “new” landing: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html )

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setx JAVA_HOME "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-21" setx PATH "%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin"

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