If you’re one of the more than ten million developers who downloaded the official Docker images for OpenJDK 8 and 11 from mid April until about a month ago, you’ll really want to make sure you get those updated stat.
Due to innocent enough confusion over tagging protocols, Debian volunteers populated their repos with unreleased versions of the JDKs some weeks before the final versions were ready to go, but failed to clearly label them as such.
As the Azul alternate representative on the JCP Executive Committee (EC), I get to attend all the EC meetings and take part in the various discussions. One topic that the EC has been devoting a lot of energy to recently is the adoption of the Java platform, post-JDK 8.
Ordinarily, this would be a discussion about the best ways to encourage people to migrate their applications to using JDK 9. However, this is not so in the new Java world order.
