Official builds and support from Oracle come in two varieties: open source under the GNU GPL, and a proprietary license that must be purchased. The latest supported release in each release cycle can be found at. Non-LTS releases are supported for 6 months. Java 8 is the last release on the old cycle methodology still in active support. Java as developed by the OpenJDK Project, owned and primarily employed by Oracle, has been on a 6-month rapid-release cycle since the release of Java 10, and starting with Java 11, has new LTS releases every six releases, or three years.
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