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Microsoft Java got released

Yes, you read correctly. We just announced the Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK on Twitter and on the official announcement.

The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is a new no-cost Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK. It is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere.

It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10+9, on x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows. We are also publishing a new Early Access binary for Java 16 for Windows on ARM, based on the latest OpenJDK 16+36 release.

Visit aka.ms/msopenjdk to download packages and installers.

Learn more here at the official announcement: https://aka.ms/microsoft-java.

Please use the comments for your thoughts and questions, or share them directly at the GitHub repository.

GitHub logo microsoft / openjdk

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

To learn more about this distribution, visit microsoft.com/openjdk.

Releases

Visit the Releases page for the latest versions of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.

Source Code

The source code of our builds are hosted on the following repositories:

  1. microsoft/openjdk-jdk11u
  2. microsoft/openjdk-jdk17u
  3. microsoft/openjdk-jdk21u

The source code of our container images are hosted on the following repository:

Contribute

Feel free to open Issues in this repository, or any of the repositories above, as well as initiating conversations through GitHub Discussions.

Jobs

Looking for open jobs in the Microsoft Java Engineering Group? See ./JOBS.md.

License

MIT

Q: Why is the license for this repo MIT as opposed to GPLv2+CE?

A: Because this repo doesn't contain actual OpenJDK source code. We only use this repository for general issues, discussions and possibly GitHub Actions workflows.

Feedback

If you have any thoughts about our binaries, please share them here.




Also, have a look at the Open Source Repository!

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Microsoft builds of OpenJDK for AArch64 Platforms

OpenJDK for Windows on ARM64

This project holds the documentation for Microsoft's port of OpenJDK for Windows on ARM64 devices.

The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

General Access (GA) binaries can be downloaded from the official release page.

A number of older builds can be found under the releases tab.

JDK Enhancement Proposal

The JEP can be found at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388.

The work was tracked under the JDK-8248496 item and has been delivered in OpenJDK 16. The work was later backported to JDK 11.

Source Code

Source code changes required to implement this port were tracked under JDK-8248238.

The port was merged into OpenJDK 16 and since then has been part of the OpenJDK mainline. Like previously stated, the port was later backported to JDK 11.

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Thorsten Hirsch

Holy shit! So what's Microsoft's strategy here? Is it just OpenJDK or do you guys add some stuff like IBM does with its JDK? What about the JVM, is it Hotspot? Any plans regarding GraalVM?

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

It's mainly OpenJDK. We'll also continue contributing to OpenJDK and to sponsor AdoptOpenJDK. But in order to offer support and to make sure that critical patches and features can be added in no time, we need this Microsoft Build of Open JDK.
We need it anyhow for our in-house 500k+ JVMs and then thought, why not give back? Why not give back to the community? 💜

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Thorsten Hirsch

I love the new Microsoft. 😃
Thank you, Sandra!

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

Thank you for sharing this feedback!

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Dave

This was my concern, too. If, and it's a big if, they push GraalVM and help Spring to make something that "just works" - I'll be interested.

I understand why they say it's OpenJDK 11, because LTS, so I would hope they have later versions too, otherwise there's an awful lot to catch up on by the time 17 launches as LTS later this year.

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Andreas Stensig

They adresss this in the short Q&A at the end of the announcement article.

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Dave

I assume you mean the OpenJDK11/17 issue, because I don't see any mention of Graal in the official announcement article...

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Andreas Stensig

Yes, I was referring to future JDK versions.

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

Pushing GraalVM is on our Roadmap. However, not at the top so far, but we are reevaluating at least every quarter :)

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Dave • Edited

# Push it, push it real good # - Salt N Pepa

(Please.)

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Just hoping that googling How To Install Java, would get builds other than Oracle's.

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Andreas Stensig

Personally I use choco to handle that. Easy:

choco install openjdk11

But I get what you mean - it's immediately apparent how to do it for someone who isn't well-versed in the opensource side of Java's ecosystem.

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

Yes, I also stick with that and use chocolately or homebrew to install and use OpenJDK for my dev machine. But for the apps in production, we need to speak about support as well

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Rob Kenis

I've been using sdkman.io/ for a while now. Gives me the option to choose versions and builds. Not sure if it fits your needs, but you could give it a shot.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

lol. Of course I know how, but not for most laypersons that I don't want to bundle JRE.

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HS

SDKMan

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

Haha, I think the easiest is to work with VSCode Coding Pack: aka.ms/install-java

You can watch me installing and using in 4 minutes here: youtube.com/watch?v=UTzXDmC5q2Y

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Dan Jones

Microsoft Java

😆

I thought you called that C#

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Richard Ikin

Yes, but C# makes you use Dictionary when what you're using isn't a Dictionary and I'm irrationally annoyed by that...

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

hahahaha, as there would be just one solution 😂

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Sam DeVore

I am sure the timing had nothing to do with the Supreme Court ruling against Oracle on Monday the 5th theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/goo... and supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18...

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

no, nothing.

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HS

Last time this happened Sun got angry and C# was released so....

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

Luckily things got a lot more open since then

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Ben Halpern

Whoa

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

YES!

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Eljay-Adobe

Unexpected! Unanticipated! Unbelievable!
Wow!

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spiritupbro

i didn't even use java but i think this is good for open source first dotner now this im still waiting for typesafe python though

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Praveen Gowthaman

woaaaaaah .... awesome

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Ken Choong

Lol.. I only use Java for Android, did this Microsoft Java import that?

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Sandra Ahlgrimm

I'd go with developer.android.com/ for mobile development

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