SAP will terminate efforts in jdk11u after the October release 11.0.25

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

Dear OpenJDK updates community!

I want to announce that SAP steps back from the jdk11u updates
project after the October 2024 release 11.0.25.

All our customer and internal usages of SapMachine 11 will have been
moved to SapMachine 17 or 21 so that we can terminate support of
SapMachine 11 by December 2024 as previously announced.

We will have helped Red Hat, the lead of the jdk11u updates project,
to maintain OpenJDK 11u through 23 releases, all the way from
11.0.3 to 11.0.25 by then.  We want to thank Red Hat to have us
in the project, and also Oracle and everybody from the community
in helping maintain 11u so far.

In detail we will terminate our efforts to
  * backport fixes to jdk11u
  * tag releases of jdk11u
  * approve backport requests
  * bundle and push the embargoed security changes
  * testing of the OpenJDK 11u repositories
  * update the project related wiki pages
after the October 11.0.25 release.

We will still be available to help with changes in the
ppc port or any issues where we can help with our
experience in OpenJDK wrt. jdk11u. Also we will help to
take care of 11.0.25 during its lifetime, i.e., in
case a patch release is necessary. But for now there is
still some work to do to get 11.0.24 and 11.0.25 out of the
door!

Naturally, we will continue our support of the
jdk17u and jdk21u updates projects.

Best regards,
  Goetz.


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