It’s time again for the (security and stability) updates to various Java versions. Oracle releases their JDK code updates in a quarterly cycle defined by “the Tuesday closest to the 17th day of January, April, July and October” and OpenJDK follows suit.

I uploaded new packages for OpenJDK versions 11 and 17 to my Slackware repository. Once there’s a new release for IcedTea, I will also build new OpenJDK 8 packages.

All of these Java packages are nowadays targeting Slackware 15.0 and newer. So, get one of these if you have a need for it (and do not install more than one of them):

  • OpenJDK 11.0.24_8 (aka the 11.0.24 General Availability release) comes as an openjdk11 package.
  • OpenJDK 17.0.12_7 (aka the 17.0.12 General Availability release) comes as an openjdk17 package.

Have fun!

Eric

Update 29-July:
I have also uploaded the new OpenJDK 8u422_b05 packages for Slackware 15.0 and newer. Install either the JDK or the JRE package (the Java Runtime Environment is included in the Java Development Kit).
I built these using the IcedTea 3.32.0 framework.