What’s new in Java 8u40

Java 8u40 is a small release but never the less has some interesting improvements:

• Formatted textfield

Text entry control that displays formatted text such as phone number, date etc. Restricts input to a certain format and can also be used for validation of user input to a certain format. Kind of like JFormattedTextfield in Swing.

• Dialogs

This as seen much debate from the community regarding its API. For more details on the final API read this blog post: http://code.makery.ch/blog/javafx-dialogs-official/

• Spinner control

More details can be viewed here: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=15368236

• Accessibility support
• Java Packager improvements

Another news is that since 8u33 ARM will no longer be officially supported. This happened because:

“This is a resource trade off within Oracle. Included in that difficult
trade off decision was the ongoing investment needed to properly support
FX in a world where so much the hardware is not standardized — it
really is difficult to have enough hardware and testing resources
committed to support FX on ARM”

Hopefully this support will unofficially continue in JavaFX Ports.

Java8u40 is scheduled to hit G.A. by early March.