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Re: Java 8 security patching

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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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  Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-08 21:30 +0100
    Re: Java 8 security patching James Kennard <james.kennard@livingwith.health> - 2023-02-10 10:00 +0100
      Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-10 15:10 +0100
        Re: Java 8 security patching James Kennard <james.kennard@livingwith.health> - 2023-02-13 11:00 +0100
          Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-13 15:10 +0100
            Re: Java 8 security patching James Kennard <james.kennard@livingwith.health> - 2023-02-13 16:50 +0100
              Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-13 17:50 +0100

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