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title: "What are the important features of Java 8 release?"  
description: "What are the important features of Java 8 release?"  
author: "Hemant Patel"  
published: 2017-12-15  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23334/what-are-the-important-features-of-java-8-release  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are the important features of Java 8 release?

New release of Java 8 is one of the most feature-packed releases in the Java history. Below list highlight important features of Java SE 8,\

(i). Lambda Expressions

(ii). Pipelines and Streams

(iii). Date and Time API

(iv). Default Methods

(v). Type Annotations

(vi). Nashorn JavaScript Engine

(vii). Concurrent Accumulators

(viii). Parallel operations

(ix). PermGen Space Removed

(x). TLS SNI

## Answers

### Answer by Hemant Patel

New release of Java 8 is one of the most feature-packed releases in the Java history. Below list highlight important features of Java SE 8,\

(i). Lambda Expressions

(ii). Pipelines and Streams

(iii). Date and Time API

(iv). Default Methods

(v). Type Annotations

(vi). Nashorn JavaScript Engine

(vii). Concurrent Accumulators

(viii). Parallel operations

(ix). PermGen Space Removed

(x). TLS SNI


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