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title: Java-SDK - 1.8.0
slug: feature-experimentation/release-notes/java-sdk-1-8-0
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createdAt: 2026-07-20T15:44:50.006Z
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\## 1.8.0

August 29, 2017

This release adds support for numeric metrics and forced bucketing (in code as opposed to whitelisting via project file).

\### New Features

\- Added \`setForcedVariation\` and \`getForcedVariation\`
\- Added any numeric metric to event metrics.

\### Breaking Changes

\- Nothing breaking from 1.7.0

[https://github.com/optimizely/java-sdk/releases/tag/1.8.0](https://github.com/optimizely/java-sdk/releases/tag/1.8.0)