Andrew Hughes (aka GNU/Andrew) announced a new release for IcedTea 2 on the distro-packager mailing list earlier this week.The new version 2.6.23 builds OpenJDK 7u271_b01. This release includes the July 2020 security fixes for Java 7 from Oracle.
It is recommended that you upgrade your OpenJDK 7 to the latest version. If you have already moved to Java 8 then this article is obviously not relevant for you.
Here is where you can download the latest Slackware packages for openjdk7 and openjre7 (Slackware 14.1 and newer):
- http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/openjdk7/
- http://slackware.nl/people/alien/slackbuilds/openjdk7/
(rsync also available: rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/)
The “rhino” package (implementation of the JavaScript engine used by OpenJDK) is an external dependency for OpenJDK 7, you can find a package in my repository. If you want to compile OpenJDK7 yourself you will need apache-ant as well.
Note about usage:
My Java 7 and Java 8 packages (e.g. openjdk7 and openjdk… or openjre7 and openjre) can not co-exist on your computer because they use the same installation directory. You must install either Java 7 or Java 8.
Remember that I release packages for the JRE (runtime environment) and the JDK (development kit) simultaneously, but you only need to install one of the two. The JRE is sufficient if you only want to run Java programs (including Java web plugins). Only in case where you’d want to develop Java programs and need a Java compiler, you are in need of the JDK package.
Enjoy! Eric
Hello! Why is there no openjdk above version 8 in Slackware world?
On slackbuilds.org you can find Oracle JDK up to version 15: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/development/jdk15/ , those are all using the official Oracle binaries, wrapped into a Slackware installable package.
But here in my own repository I compile OpenJDK from source using the icedtea framework and there’s currently no icedtea release which builds a higher version than OpenJDK 8.