Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source

Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

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2021-05-25 19:00:10

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. Java is heavily used by Microsoft with more than 500,000 JVMs running internally. The Java Engineering Group is very proud to contribute back to the Java ecosystem and help power workloads such as LinkedIn, Minecraft and Azure!

It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.11+9 x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows. We are also publishing a new Early Access binary for Java 16 for Linux and Windows on ARM, based on the latest OpenJDK 16.0.1+9 release.

This new Java 16 release is already in use by millions of Minecraft players, with the latest Minecraft Java Edition Snapshot version 21W19A, which has been updated to bundle a Java 16 runtime based on the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.

With general availability, we are also releasing Microsoft Build of OpenJDK Docker images and corresponding Dockerfiles. These are designed to be used by any Java applications or Java application components for deployment anywhere, including Microsoft Azure.