Java 8 is EOL December 2020

[Ashik Uzzaman]

Java 8 is EOL December 2020. What does it mean? Does all commercial or open source jdk will also stop providing support for it?

[Campbell Ritchie]

I means Oracle will stop officially supporting it. Old versions will continue to work however. Don't know about open source support. It means it will be 2¼ years since Java11 was issued as an LTS version and users should upgrade to Java11.

[Tim Moores]

I would assume that security fixes will continue to be issued, but possibly not for long. So yes, it's time to move on to the next LTS version.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Tim Moores wrote:. . . security fixes . . . possibly not for long. . . .

And possibly only if you pay extra for continuing support.

[Rob Spoor]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:

Tim Moores wrote:. . . security fixes . . . possibly not for long. . . .

And possibly probably only if you pay extra for continuing support.

There, I fixed it for you.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Per the Oracle roadmap, premiere support goes to 2022 and extended support to 2030.

This is for paying customers of course.

[Tim Moores]

I think it's quite possible that the OpenJDK community will fix bugs, or at least security issues, and publish new releases, whatever Oracle decides to do.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Rob Spoor wrote:. . . There, I fixed it for you.

Hahahahahahahahaha!