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Java 8 is your everyday corporate code ...

Didn't Oracle drop support for Java 8 like six years ago? I'm sure there are plenty of companies still running it, but even Apple (a relatively conservative company in this regard) updated to Java 11 when I was there in ~2019.

Oracle is supporting Java 8 till 2030 as a paid binary if you download from them and free source code as part of the OpenJDK. Other OpenJDK vendors, like Adoptium, are providing free binaries till 2030 as well. Other folks may or may not provide free binaries. RHEL builds of the OpenJKD are free till November 2026, part of extended life support till 2030.

For us, the biggest driver for getting off Java 8 was SpringBoot dropping support for anything older than 17.

> Java SE subscribers will receive JDK 8 updates until at least December 2030

Not for clients with a commercial license, and there are many.

https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/blob/develop/CHANGELO...

Amazon still supporting Java 8

this isn't really the case. a lot of legacy code may still be running the version it was developed against, but java 17+ has a sizable share of the ecosystem now that all of the popular libraries require it. spring for example bumped their baseline to jdk 17 in 2022.

Doesn't really matter if you're using an old Spring version with the old Java version. Spring offers enterprise support for Spring framework 5 which still supports Java 8.

But organizations still using Java 8 will most likely use some kind of Java Enterprise application server with vendor support. IBM will support Websphere with Java 8 until at least 2030 and maybe longer if customers keep paying. I'd guess Oracle has a similar policy.

It used to but Oracle‘s licensing and probably more important security guidelines from the very top linking CVE scores to mandatory updates got things moving on the last years.

What about Android? Hmm....

Nope, we are on Java 25

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