Hi Andrea, Thanks for that. I had missed that the ‘All release notes’ link; thank you for pointing me towards the right page. I’m now happy about it from the security patching point of view as I just had not found that page really.
In that case I will assume that I should use the Adopt OpenJDK version 8 for now then and update my GeoServers accordingly. Many thanks, Paul From: Andrea Aime <[email protected]> Sent: 02 January 2020 13:05 To: Paul Wittle <[email protected]> Cc: Jody Garnett <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Java version On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 12:40 PM Paul Wittle <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Jody, Thanks for getting back to me. I’ll give that a go although my colleagues had already tried that one for a different application and had issues. However my question still stands in a generic sense because I think there needs to be clarity on what is now recommended. After all the work to support Java 11 are we still saying that Java 8 is better and is that likely to change soon? What I can tell you is that at my company have no deploys with Java 11, everything is still running Java 8. In benchmarks I've run recently the situation is a mixed bag, it depends on the workload. I’m sure the Adopt one is fine and will pass our compliance testing this month but I just felt it is still felt it is relevant to ask for some clarity on whether Java 11 will become the recommended version shortly. (Personal opinion here) I don't think we'll switch away from the current setup until Java 8 keeps on getting security updates just like Java 11 does, which will be until around 2023 (while Java 11 might stop receiving updates in 2022): https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html The GeoServer releases come with a clear change log detailing what patches are included but I can’t see that on the AdoptOpenJDK site; are the two OpenJDK sites actually separate products or is it just a distribution of the same project? I mostly ask because their support page gives plenty of information about the quality of the builds, which I accept; but how do you know what security patches are being applied if the Oracle version is now commercial, OpenJDK appears to not be updating and AdoptOpenJDK seem to be giving limited information. As far as I know (and to the limits of what I've heard), AdoptOpenJDK is getting all the security fixes. Checking the AdoptOpenJDK release notes, I see a format that's pretty similar to the one of the Oracle JDK releases, what are you missing? https://adoptopenjdk.net/release_notes.html By the way, depending on the platform you may find other distributions of OpenJDK, which may be more interesting if you're also interested in a support contract, see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#OpenJDK_builds Cheers Andrea == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. 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