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1. SOURCE JAVA DISTRIBUTION MICROSOFT OPENJDK FOR FREE
2. SOURCE JAVA DISTRIBUTION MICROSOFT OPENJDK SOFTWARE

SOURCE JAVA DISTRIBUTION MICROSOFT OPENJDK FOR FREE

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. As we said earlier when we announced the Microsoft Build Preview of OpenJDK, Microsoft uses a lot of Java with over 500.000 JVMs running internally. These additional changes will be explicitly noted in the release notes and published in the source code in the project repository. It will also include fixes and enhancements that, for one reason or another, are not accepted in the OpenJDK mainstream, but are recognized as important to Microsoft customers and projects.

It is mentioned that Microsoft Build of OpenJDK will have a long maintenance cycle with quarterly release of free updates. The distribution is positioned as stable and is already used by many Microsoft products and services, including Azure, Minecraft, SQL Server, Visual Studio Code, and LinkedIn. Note that This OpenJDK distribution published by Microsoft is the company's contribution to the Java ecosystem and an attempt to strengthen interaction with the community. OpenJDK 11 is maintained by Red Hat Company. The OpenJDK 11 branch, which is used in the Microsoft distribution, is classified as LTS versions, whose updates will be generated until October 2024. For commercial use at no charge, it is suggested to use the free OpenJDK package licensed under the GPLv2 with GNU ClassPath exceptions that allow dynamic linking with commercial products.

SOURCE JAVA DISTRIBUTION MICROSOFT OPENJDK SOFTWARE

which restricts commercial use and allows free use only in software development or personal use, testing, prototyping, and application demonstration. These fixes and improvements will be noted in the release notes with the available source code.Īs a reminder, Oracle in 2019 transferred its Java SE binary distributions to a new license agreement. The product It is distributed free of charge and is available in source code under the GPLv2 license.īinaries Microsoft Build of OpenJDK may contain fixes and improvements that are considered important to customers and internal users, but have not been incorporated into the upstream OpenJDK project. Microsoft has started to distribute its own Java distribution based on OpenJDK, providing a free open source Java distribution that could compete with Oracle's Java distributions.