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  1. Java 17 was released in September 2021 including Records (JEP 395), Sealed Classes (JEP 409), Switch Expressions (JEP 361), Text Blocks (JEP 378), Pattern Matching for instanceof (JEP 394), Stream.toList and more.
  2. Java 21 was released in September 2023. 
  3. Apache Kafka 4.0 is likely to be released in Q3 2024.
  4. Several popular projects have set Java 17 (or newer) as the minimum supported version or have announced plans to do so in the near future: Jetty 12, Apache Spark 4.0, Spring 6, Spring Boot 3, Quarkus 3.7, Apache Tomcat 11. This is also being considered for Flink 2.0, but hasn't been voted on yet.
  5. Apache Kafka 3.7, due in January 2024, will include official docker images for the first time. This deployment model includes the Java runtime (Java 21 in the initial version) and it aims to abstract the Java version from users who do not run custom code within the kafka broker (the majority of users).

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