Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again
This 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.<p>I remember having weird issues a few years ago with builds for both Centos and Debian&#x2F;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.<p>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 make it very easy to use them. I&#x27;ve been using Azul docker images for quite some time.<p>Amazon particularly seems to have made an effort with their openjdk builds. If you read their commit log: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;corretto&#x2F;corretto-8&#x2F;commits&#x2F;develop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;corretto&#x2F;corretto-8&#x2F;commits&#x2F;develop</a>, you&#x27;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&#x27;m currently considering switching to this.<p>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&#x2F;business reasons) and fully understand the legal situation that implies, you should avoid using them.