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Java 8 Unique features

Java 8 was released in March 2014 and it was great a update.
ReleaseRelease dateHighlights
Java SE 82014-03-18Initial release
Java SE 8 Update 5[252]2014-04-15Using "*" in Caller-Allowable-Codebase attribute; 11 bug fixes
Java SE 8 Update 11[253]2014-07-15Java Dependency Analysis Tool (jdeps); Java Control Panel option to disable sponsors; JAR file attribute – Entry-Point; JAXP processing limit property – maxElementDepth; 18 security bug fixes,[254] 15 bug fixes
Java SE 8 Update 20[255]2014-08-19669 bug fixes,[256] JMC 5.4, String deduplication (disabled by default)
Latest Java 8 version is Java SE 8 Update 181. Oracle decided to overhauled the java with new exciting features and these are :
1. forEach() method in Iterable interface : It is a new way to iterate over the collections (list, set, map etc.)
2. default and static methods in Interfaces : To provide the backward compatibility Java Introduced the default methods and it also help the programmers to add a default implementation of methods which can be shared by the implementing classes. 
3. Functional Interfaces and Lambda Expressions : It was the most awaited feature to make the programming clean writing of the code and use of functional interfaces.
4. Java Stream API for Bulk Data Operations on Collections :  Bulk data operations are made easy and now processing of the elements can be sequential or parallel. 
5. Java Time API : New Design of time and date related functionality to deal with the different time zones in a efficient manner.
6. Collection API improvements
  • Iterator default method forEachRemaining(Consumer action) to perform the given action for each remaining element until all elements have been processed or the action throws an exception.
  • Collection default method removeIf(Predicate filter) to remove all of the elements of this collection that satisfy the given predicate.
  • Collection spliterator() method returning Spliterator instance that can be used to traverse elements sequentially or parallel.
  • Map replaceAll(), compute(), merge() methods.
  • Performance Improvement for HashMap class with Key Collisions

7. Concurrency API improvements

  • ConcurrentHashMap compute(), forEach(), forEachEntry(), forEachKey(), forEachValue(), merge(), reduce() and search() methods.
  • CompletableFuture that may be explicitly completed (setting its value and status).
  • Executors newWorkStealingPool() method to create a work-stealing thread pool using all available processors as its target parallelism level.

8. Java IO improvements

  • BufferedReader.lines() that return a Stream, the elements of which are lines read from this BufferedReader.
  • Files.list(Path dir) that returns a lazily populated Stream, the elements of which are the entries in the directory.
  • Files.lines(Path path) that reads all lines from a file as a Stream.
  • Files.find() that returns a Stream that is lazily populated with Path by searching for files in a file tree rooted at a given starting file.
9. Core API improvements : So many other improvements are made at the core level. Some of the main enhancements are here - 
  • Comparator interface has been extended with a lot of default and static methods for natural ordering, reverse order etc.
  • ThreadLocal static method withInitial(Supplier supplier) to create instance easily.
  • min(), max() and sum() methods in Integer, Long and Double wrapper classes.
  • logicalAnd(), logicalOr() and logicalXor() methods in Boolean class.
  • JJS command is added to invoke Nashorn Engine.
  • JDEPS command is added to analyze class files
  • JDBC-ODBC Bridge has been removed.
  • PermGen memory space has been removed
  • ZipFile.stream() method to get an ordered Stream over the ZIP file entries. Entries appear in the Stream in the order they appear in the central directory of the ZIP file.
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