Lifecycle guide for OpenJDK from Oracle

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-08-07

What is OpenJDK?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture.

The entire lifecycle of OpenJDK

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of OpenJDK. 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.

OpenJDK (Oracle) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product OpenJDK (Oracle)

What is the OpenJDK release strategy?

All releases, including LTS release of OpenJDK, are supported for 6 months, meaning the release of a new major version of OpenJDK will end support for the previous major version.

Facts and figures about OpenJDK

Product

OpenJDK

Vendor

Oracle

Latest version

26.0.2

Number of releases

Number of versions

231

Number of unstable versions

Number of versions affected by CVE

Licence

GNU General Public License (GPL) V2.0

Licence details

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk?tab=GPL-2.0-1-ov-file#readme

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