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IBM subsidiary Red Hat has released a new extension for Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor. Language Support for Java by Red Hat, available on the VS Code Marketplace, has already been installed an estimated 12.4 million times and is among the top 10 most popular VS Code marketplace offerings.

Also, with this release, Java 17 is now officially supported by Red Hat's Java extensions. Earlier this month Oracle announced the general availability the JDK 17, latest update of the reference implementation of the Java SE Platform under the company’s six-month release schedule, and the second Long Term Support (LTS) since JDK 11 went GA in 2018.