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Amazon Corretto 8 is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK 8

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2019-02-02 · latest 2025-11-26

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  1. https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/blob/develop/CHANGELO... Amazon still supporting Java 8
    comment by PrimeDirective · 2025-11-26 · in Java Decompiler
  2. …see how they handled an obscure "Swing seems to crash with my app, but not for anyone else" https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/issues/331
    comment by nikanj · 2021-11-01 · in Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use
  3. https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8 https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/ https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine
    comment by Rebelgecko · 2020-09-08 · in OpenJDK is now on GitHub
  4. …below, it's also available on Github under its own user and with a very permissive (GPLv2) license: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8
    comment by Sebguer · 2019-12-04 · in Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
  5. Because it's maintained by Amazon? But it's entirely open source: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8 with a very permissive license (GPLv2)
    comment by Sebguer · 2019-12-04 · in Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
  6. …particularly seems to have made an effort with their openjdk builds. If you read their commit log: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/commits/develop , you'll see a few backports of fixes from openjdk 9 and lots of efforts to get the…
    comment by jillesvangurp · 2019-05-20 · in Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again
  7. Yeah. I think the motivation there was the same. Judging by https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/graphs/contributors and https://github.com/corretto/corretto-11/graphs/contributors there is some adoption... Not a lot yet.
    comment by otisg · 2019-03-11 · in Open Distro for Elasticsearch
  8. "Amazon will distribute security updates to Corretto 8 at no cost until at least June, 2023." https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/issues
    comment by based2 · 2019-02-02 · in Amazon Corretto 8 Now Generally Available (OpenJDK)