Azul Zulu: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Azul Zulu from Azul Systems

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2025-12-12

What is Azul Zulu?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementAzul Zulu is a build of the OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) provided by Azul Systems. It is a fully certified, open-source implementation of the Java Standard Edition (SE) platform, which is compliant with the Java SE specifications.
 

The entire lifecycle of Azul Zulu

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Azul Zulu. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Azul Zulu (Azul Systems) release, version and end-of-life information
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Azul Zulu (Azul Systems)
 

What is the Azul Zulu release strategy?

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 fixes as needed (“Production Support”) 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 STS, Azul provides Production Support for at least 6 months.

Facts and figures about Azul Zulu

Product
Azul Zulu
Vendor
Azul Systems
Latest version
26.0.27
Number of releases
12
Number of versions
47
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
BSD-3-Clause-Clear
 
 

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