The title of the post does not follow HN submission guidelines and is misleading; it's only Java 8, and by that time, Java 11 will be released. "Java will stop issuing patches for old versions of Java except for paying customers" is the real story here and it's a boring story.
Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates
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Re: Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates
#12Similar posts show up here every few weeks on HN, with similar misleading titles. Move on, nothing to see here.
Re: Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. Oracle is trying to push everyone to their rapid releases of java 10, and 11.
Isn't 11 a LTS again?
Hmm, Oracle JDK yes, but seems there will be no free version https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b8...
Personally, I've been transitioning my stuff to OpenJDK (probably should have a long time ago).
Re: Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates
#14The title of the post does not follow HN submission guidelines and is misleading; it's only Java 8, and by that time, Java 11 will be released. "Java will stop issuing patches for old versions of Java except for paying customers" is the real story here and it's a boring story.
Right. We changed the title from "Oracle stops Java SE for commercial use starting January 2019".
Submitters: it's against HN's rules to rewrite titles to make them more baity or misleading. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission rights on HN, so please don't do that!
Re: Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates
#15FYI: I would avoid use of Oracle products. Azul Zulu has a better concurrent and parallel, nearly-pauseless GC.