The last significant changes to the Terms of Use were made on 16 July 2012. The primary goal of that update was to allow work on specifications for Java SE JSRs to take place in the OpenJDK Community, right alongside the work on their reference implementations, so that the specification leads of such JSRs can satisfy the transparency requirements of version 2.8 of the Java Community Process (JSR 348). Two other changes in that update were to specify explicitly that the default outbound license for all code is GPLv2 (previously it was unspecified), and to align the rest of the text more closely with Oracle's standard Terms-of-Use document.
On 22 October 2021, the Terms of Use were updated to revise section 5(s), on Export Restrictions and Legal Compliance, and to revise the copyright notice.