Hi,
One more time: please don't confuse the Oracle Java support map with Java support. They are not the same thing. Java has had multiple vendors for almost 20 years. What Oracle will support is only what Oracle will support. I wouldn't even consider Oracle the primary vendor of Java any more. IBM, Azul, Amazon, Microsoft, Red Hat, the OpenJDK Project, and others have significantly different schedules.A quick search does show Azul and Amazon ending support for Java 8 on January 1 2031 so 2030 is probably about the right time for us to consider dropping Java 8 support. I wouldn't do it before then. There are practical advantages to sticking on Java 8 that still outweigh the advantages of upgrading for some shops.
Correct, but personally I can't imagine having a good reason to still restrict your codebase on Java 8 at the end of 2030, more than 16 years after that version was released, when * there's Java 35 available (if I counted correctly and they're still using a 6-month release cycle) * lots of LTS versions got released in the meantime until then (actually we got four: 11, 17, 21 and 25).
Thorsten
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