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Azul’s commercial product releases are designated with one of two different support lifecycles: Long Term Support (LTS) and Medium Term Support (MTS).
Releases designated as LTS are those same LTS releases as designated by Oracle and the OpenJDK community. For LTS releases, Azul provides at least 8 years of access to bug fixes, security updates, and other (“Production Support”) fixes as needed plus 2 years of additional support intended to advise and assist users to migrate to a newer JDK version (“Extended Support”).
For those releases designed as MTS, Azul provides Production Support for at least 1.5 years after the general availability of the next LTS release, plus an additional 1 year of Extended Support.
For other Java feature releases, Azul will make feature preview or community builds available on its download page for 6 months.
You can also use the table below to determine the expected availability of public updates and the lifecycle of Oracle’s commercial Java support offerings.
| End of Commercial Support | ||||||||
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| Java SE Release | Azul Lifecycle Title | Java SE GA Date | Oracle End of Free Commercial Use | Oracle Java SE | Azul Platform Core | Azul Platform Prime | ||
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Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK |
Eclipse Temurin |
Azul Zulu Prime Builds of OpenJDK |
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Current Offerings
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Java 6
|
LTS
|
Dec 2006
|
Apr 2013
|
Dec 2018
(12 yrs) |
Dec ’18 / Dec ’27*
(12 yrs) / (21 yrs)* |
–
|
Apr 2017
(11 yrs) |
|
|
Java 7
|
LTS
|
Jul 2011
|
Apr 2015
|
July 2022
(11 yrs) |
Jul ’22 / Dec ’27*
(11 yrs) / (16 yrs)* |
–
|
Dec 2021
(10.5 yrs) |
|
|
Java 8
|
LTS
|
Mar 2014
|
Jan 2019
|
Dec 2030
(16 yrs) |
Dec 2030
(16 yrs) |
May 2026
(12 yrs) |
Dec 2030
(16 yrs) |
|
|
Java 9
|
6 months
|
Sept 2017
|
Mar 2018
|
Mar 2018
(6 mo) |
Mar 2018
(6 mo) |
–
|
–
|
|
|
Java 10
|
6 months
|
Mar 2018
|
Sept 2018
|
Sept 2018
(6 mo) |
Sept 2018
(6 mo) |
–
|
–
|
|
|
Java 11
|
LTS
|
Sept 2018
|
Mar 2019
|
Sept 2026
(8 yrs) |
Sept 2026
(8 yrs) |
Oct 2024
(6 yrs) |
Sept 2026
(8 yrs) |
|
|
Java 12
|
6 months
|
Mar 2019
|
Sept 2019
|
Sept 2019
(6 mo) |
Sept 2019
(6 mo) |
–
|
–
|
|
|
Java 13
|
MTS
|
Sept 2019
|
Mar 2020
|
Mar 2020
(6 mo) |
Mar 2023
(3.5 yrs) |
–
|
Mar 2023
(3.5 yrs) |
|
|
Java 14
|
6 months
|
Mar 2020
|
Sept 2020
|
Sept 2020
(6 mo) |
Sept 2020
(6 mo) |
–
|
–
|
|
|
Java 15
|
MTS
|
Sept 2020
|
Mar 2021
|
Mar 2021
(6 mo) |
Mar 2023
(2.5 yrs) |
–
|
Mar 2023
(2.5 yrs) |
|
|
Java 16
|
6 months
|
Mar 2021
|
Sept 2021
|
Sept 2021
(6 mo) |
Sept 2021
(6 mo) |
–
|
–
|
|
|
Java 17
|
LTS
|
Sept 2021
|
Mar 2022
|
Sept 2029
(8 yrs) |
Sept 2029
(8 yrs) |
TBD
|
Sept 2029
(8 yrs) |
|
|
Java 18
|
6 months
|
Mar 2022
|
Sept 2022
|
Sept 2022
(6 mo) |
Sept 2022
(6 mo) |
–
|
–
|
|
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Future Offerings (Est.)
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Java 19
|
MTS
|
Sept 2022
|
Mar 2023
|
Mar 2023
(6 mo) |
Mar 2025
(2.5 yrs) |
–
|
Mar 2025
(2.5 yrs) |
|
|
Java 20
|
6 months
|
Mar 2023
|
Sept 2023
|
Sept 2023
(6 mo) |
Sept 2023
(6 mo) |
–
|
–
|
|
|
Java 21
|
LTS
|
Sept 2023
|
Sept 2026
|
September 2031
(8 yrs) |
September 2031
(8 yrs) |
TBD
|
September 2031
(8 yrs) |
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* Only for those customers who have purchased extended Production Support for Java 6 or Java 7. Additional builds that may be provided during the extended Production Support period are not TCK-tested. Contact Azul for further information.
From time to time, Azul may offer “Feature Preview”, “Early Access” or “Not Supported” versions publicly or to select Azul customers. These releases are explicitly not supported in any manner.
