diff --git a/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md b/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md index beee627ac..e73606654 100644 --- a/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md +++ b/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: Early access builds for JDK21 -date: "2023-08-15T16:00:00+00:00" +date: "2023-08-14T14:00:00+00:00" author: sxa description: Adoptium are publishing early access "tagged" builds instead of nightlies for JDK21 tags: @@ -10,14 +10,15 @@ In addition to the generally available release builds of all currently supported versions of openjdk (Currently 8, 11, 17 and 20) Temurin also publishes "nightly" development builds of all of those streams as well as the upcoming release (JDK21 at the moment) as "nightly" or "early access" builds. You can get these from -https://adoptium.net/temurin/nightly or from the API. Note that while these are +[the nightly downloads page](https://adoptium.net/temurin/nightly/?version=21) +or from the API. Note that while these are not intended for production use they can be used to test a build containing any new fixes which have been put into openjdk along with any new features that will be coming in the next release. ## Early access (ea) tagged builds of JDK21 -We have recently changed the way we do the regular nightly builds of JDK21. +We have recently changed the way we do the regular nightly builds of JDK21. Instead of producing regular builds of the latest development code, we are building explicitly from the early access tags when they come out. This is consistent with what OpenJDK does with the builds at @@ -70,6 +71,3 @@ We are looking at whether it makes sense to build ea levels instead of regular nightly head builds of the other supported codebases. If you have a view on whether that would be useful please let us know by commenting in [this issue](https://github.com/adoptium/temurin-build/issues/3450). - -For more information on GPG signing and the impliations of the different steps in the process above, see the -[integrity checking article from Eclipse](https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/How_to_check_integrity_of_downloads#Example_of_using_GPG_with_the_checksums_files).