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Class File 45.3 • 1997 • Java 1.1
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45.3Minor incrementEarly platform growth

All About Class File 45.3

Java 1.1 kept the same major line but increased the minor version to reflect evolutionary changes.

Binary milestone

Class File 45.3

Java 1.1 kept the same major line but increased the minor version to reflect evolutionary changes.

45.3Minor incrementEarly platform growth
Compatibility meaning

Why the version number matters

The class file version is the binary compatibility signal that tells tooling and runtimes which generation of compiled Java bytecode they are dealing with.

This milestone is part of the steady one-step-per-release evolution of the Java class file contract.

javap -verbose MyClass.class
# look for: major version 45
Release context

What was happening around this milestone

Minor version increment

Java 1.1 kept the same major line but increased the minor version to reflect evolutionary changes.

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