PRPrimeDirective·Nov 26, 2025
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Amazon Corretto 8 is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK 8
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Amazon Corretto 8 is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK 8
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesWe moved to Corretto, and have been _very_ happy with them. For example, see how they handled an obscure "Swing seems to crash with my app, but not for anyone else" https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/issues/331
In Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Usehttps://github.com/corretto/corretto-8
https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/
https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine
In OpenJDK is now on GitHubThe same reason React is under Facebook's github org? https://github.com/facebook/react
FYI, as I commented below, it's also available on Github under its own user and with a very permissive (GPLv2) license: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8
In Amazon CodeGuru – PreviewBecause it's maintained by Amazon? But it's entirely open source: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8 with a very permissive license (GPLv2)
In Amazon CodeGuru – PreviewThis is indeed not the first time something like this happens and a good reason to get your openjdk builds from someone that has licensed the test suites and supports their builds.
I remember having weird issues a few years ago with builds for both Centos and Debian/Ubuntu where they first took ages to get release builds out and then made it worse by basing their builds of pre-release versions rather than actual stable releases. This was several months into the JDK 8 cycle. In their defense, JDK 8 had some nasty bugs early on. But still, a lot of this seemed accidental to me and not intentional.
You can get decent openjdk builds from Amazon, Azul and Red Hat. They each put in quite a bit of effort to ensure these builds are solid and tested and they each offer these builds for free they also each offer Docker images with their builds and
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make it very easy to use them. I've been using Azul docker images for quite some time.
Amazon particularly seems to have made an effort with their openjdk builds. If you read their commit log: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/commits/develop, you'll see a few backports of fixes from openjdk 9 and lots of efforts to get the packaging right. The last bug fix they added was from just a few months ago. I'm currently considering switching to this.
BTW. Oracle seems to have stepped away from this and only offers limited time support for their own JDKs which also cost money. So, not including them in this list on purpose. Unless you must use them (for legal/business reasons) and fully understand the legal situation that implies, you should avoid using them.
Yeah. I think the motivation there was the same. Judging by https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/graphs/contributors and https://github.com/corretto/corretto-11/graphs/contributors there is some adoption... Not a lot yet.
In Open Distro for Elasticsearch"Amazon will distribute security updates to Corretto 8 at no cost until at least June, 2023."
https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/issues
In Amazon Corretto 8 Now Generally Available (OpenJDK)