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[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

That's bad. 8 hasn't been getting the essential security updates since march 2022. Of course money can buy a lot, but it's still a bad idea. Even the Dutch govern.e t has mostly made the transition and they are no known for their elasticity

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

8 hasn’t been getting the essential security updates since march 2022.

That's not really true despite what Oracle claims. Even without dropping money for Oracle's 2030 support, there's been 9 releases to OpenJDK 8 so far in 2024. Amazon has guaranteed OpenJDK 8 LTS through 2026 as "corretto" for justifying it to corporate compliance teams.

Everyone really should upgrade but it's going to be several years yet before it's an actual security risk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)