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Re: Java 8 security patching



Hi Thorsten,

Thanks again for the explanation.

With the changes to Java licensing, alternative distributions of Java have become increasingly popular. They all have their pros and cons, https://whichjdk.com/.

All the best,

James


On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 14:06, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, James Kennard wrote:

>Is there a particular reason why you are continuing to update it as opposed
>to recommending people switch to an alternative distribution such as
>Temurin?

I don’t know what Temurin even is.

While I do recommend that people switch to default-jdk, and in fact
we have been needing to use at least 11 in development for a while
because Maven plugins from Central didn’t work with 8 for some time
even when intended to, some customers still run prod on 8, so we
need it for testing. (Or, at least, used to; I’m currently not in
a Java project at work.) I also have been supplying a customer with
openjdk-8 as jessie backport before it was in backports itself, then
ELTS. (The mentioned customer is also no longer in a situation to
receive/need these, but this gives historical context.)

I just did not cease updating this.

bye,
//mirabilos
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