Oracle extends assist for Java 11, Java on Solaris

Oracle in its Spring 2024 roadmap for Java SE (Commonplace Version) reconfirmed it would prolong assist for Java 11 by means of January 2032, and can assist Java 8 and Java 11 on the Solaris working system till a minimum of December 2030 and January 2032 respectively.

The Java SE Spring 2024 roadmap replace, printed Could 13, additionally notes the corporate’s continued industrial assist of JavaFX and its deliberate sunsetting of the Superior Administration Console (AMC) after October 2024. AMC customers needs to be migrating to Java Administration Service (JMS), Oracle mentioned.

Solaris is the longtime Unix OS Oracle acquired with Solar Microsystems in January 2010. Oracle mentioned it stays dedicated to offering assist for Java on Solaris. This at present means assist for Java SE 8 till a minimum of December 2030 and Java SE 11 till a minimum of January 2032. These phrases characterize an extension of Java assist by an extra six years previous dates introduced in 2019, Donald Smith, Oracle vp of product administration, wrote a weblog publish. Oracle additionally plans to assist the WebLogic 14.1.2 utility server on Oracle Solaris/Sparc servers sooner or later.

Oracle plans to finish industrial assist for JavaFX on JDK 8 in March 2025. Updates of JDK 8 launched after March of 2025 will not embody JavaFX, Smith wrote. JavaFX 8 is the final commercially supported model of JavaFX out there from Oracle. Oracle reaffirmed its assist for the Java consumer roadmap introduced in Could 2020 and mentioned it would proceed to develop JavaFX as stand-alone modules within the OpenJFX challenge and can proceed to supply open-source OpenJFX builds on the most recent variations of Java, at present JavaFX 22 on Oracle JDK 22.

Additionally on Oracle’s Java roadmap:

• Oracle final month printed a reminder that JDK 17, launched in September 2021, is approaching its finish of permissive licensing. Updates supplied after September 2024 are deliberate to be supplied beneath the Oracle Java OTN license, the identical license used for Java 8 and Java 11.
• Smith reiterated plans to assist AMC by means of October 2024. Clients needs to be migrating to JMS, he mentioned. AMC won’t obtain updates after 2024.
• Along with extending assist for JDK 11 to January 1932 or later, Oracle has waived prolonged assist charges for Java 11.

Oracle beforehand printed a roadmap of plans for all of 2024 that lined tasks starting from Amber, for constructing productivity-oriented options, to Valhalla, for augmenting the Java object mannequin.