After upgrading to Java8, javac still shows 1.7

Question

I\'m having issues upgrading from JDK 1.7 -> 1.8 on OSX. The upgrade has completed, but javac still returns 1.7 as the version.

I\'ve downloaded JDK 8_u5 from Oracl

Answer 1

This is (most likely) a bug in the installation process of jre8.

I am getting the exact same behaviour when navigating to my jre8 folder, which is the one which Windows (in my case) shows by default:

• java version: 1.8.0, runtime environment 1.8.0-b132, hotspot 64-bit JVM 25.0-b70
• javac version: 1.7.0_25

When navigating to the jdk8 directory, it shows the following:

• java version: 1.8.0, runtime environment 1.8.0-b132, hotspot 64-bit JVM 25.0-b70
• javac version: 1.8.0

I did just now notice though that the jre does never ship an javac, so this is an issue in the reference settings in the operating system then I guess.

To fix it, you would need to manually fix the javac reference in your OS.