Why? Many large-scale systems—insurance claim processors, stock trading platforms, medical record systems—were compiled against Java 7. Their vendors would not certify Java 8 due to subtle behavioral changes (e.g., changes in Collections.sort , TLS defaults, or date parsing). For these organizations, 7u80 became the final safe harbor .
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