JDK 8 Updates from OpenJDK community

[Dheeraj Joshi]

Thanks Andrew,
That means as community openjdk doesn't have road map and as long as some
org like jboss or adoptopenjdk provides fix to JDK 8 it will be available.

Kind Regards
Dheeraj Joshi


On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:48 PM Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 8/23/19 5:52 AM, Dheeraj Joshi wrote:
>
> > How long Open JDK 8 is supported by https://openjdk.java.net/ We are
> > currently analyzing impact of upgrading from Java 8 to Java 11. We
> > need to know for how long JDK 8 will get periodic security upgrades
> > and general patches for JDK 8 from https://openjdk.java.net/?
> >
> > RedHat OpenJDK 8 is supported till June 2023
> > https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 AdoptOpenJDK8 is support
> > till September 2023 https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html
>
> That sounds about right. It means that public updates will be
> available for at least that long. It may well be that some
> organization will volunteer to support it for longer.
>
> > We see these different support end dates for OpenJDK from different
> > vendors. We are using open JDK from https://openjdk.java.net/ So we
> > want to know for how long we would receive updates for JDK 8 from
> > OpenJDK community
> >
> > Is there a Road map available for public viewing?
>
> That is the road map! JDK 8 is the legacy version. I would advise all
> individuals and organizations to have a transition plan to a later JDK
> version in place well before 2023.
>
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> Java Platform Lead Engineer
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