"There will not be any radical changes to OpenJDK 8, which is in maintenance mode, or OpenJDK 11. Unsupported environments are unlikely to be current on security. Red Hat will also provide bug and security fixes, which is a major benefit for users of a supported OpenJDK environment. That is important, because others - including AWS, Azul Systems, AdoptOpenJDK and SAP - will also base their releases on OpenJDK 11. With its stewardship of OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11, Red Hat will maintain releases and determine what it does or doesn't add. Otherwise, they cannot provide long-term support for their own products. Red Hat takes overĬompanies like IBM and Red Hat are basically forced to. Otherwise, they cannot provide long-term support for their own products," he said. "Companies like IBM and Red Hat are basically forced to do this. Meanwhile, Oracle has little interest in older versions of Java, other than to charge customers for them, and it's happy to let Red Hat fix and maintain OpenJDK forks, said Cameron Purdy, CEO of, a cloud software startup in Lexington, Mass., and former senior vice president of development at Oracle. They've done more to keep Java 'honest' than just about anyone else." "I feel far better about 8 and 11 being under Red Hat's stewardship than Oracle or almost any of the others. "There are so many other companies jumping on the OpenJDK support bandwagon, which is nice to see, but very few of them really have the expertise to do full-stack support of OpenJDK," said an enterprise Java developer for a systems provider, who asked not to be named. For starters, this move potentially slows the trend toward new OpenJDK distributions from companies such as Amazon, SAP and Alibaba. He has been active on the OpenJDK governing board for seven years.Īt the same time, Red Hat's OpenJDK 11 stewardship likely serves Oracle's interests. The OpenJDK community selected the company's technical lead on Java, Andrew Haley, as project lead for OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 in February 2019. The company was a steward of OpenJDK 7, which came out in 2011, and of OpenJDK 6, from 2013 until 2017. Red Hat's OpenJDK contributions began in 2007 with the IcedTea integration project. "Both Red Hat and IBM are going to be interested and willing to support the public and free maintenance of these Java LTS releases for a longer period than Oracle ," he said.
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