The same is happening with Firefox. Many "infrastructure" software projects have switched to time-based releases. Say, a release every 6 months.
So there is no notion of big or small releases. Hence the seemingly fast increase of version numbers.
So there is no notion of big or small releases. Hence the seemingly fast increase of version numbers.
Although I would argue that it should change by 0.5 per feature or something like that, so that if it has 10 new features the version number will be 5 higher, but only 2 new features will be 1 higher. Because Java has changed very little from 8 to 12, whereas Firefox's last 4 changes were altogether bigger.