diff --git a/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md b/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md index e73606654..5b211237e 100644 --- a/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md +++ b/content/blog/early-access-builds/index.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ --- -title: Early access builds for JDK21 +title: Early access builds for JDK21+ date: "2023-08-14T14:00:00+00:00" author: sxa -description: Adoptium are publishing early access "tagged" builds instead of nightlies for JDK21 +description: Adoptium are publishing early access "tagged" builds instead of nightlies for JDK21+ tags: - temurin --- 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 +development builds of all of those streams as well as the upcoming releases (JDK21/22 at the moment) as "nightly" or "early access" builds. You can get these from [the nightly downloads page](https://adoptium.net/temurin/nightly/?version=21) or from the API. Note that while these are @@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ 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 +## 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 https://jdk.java.net/21/ but on a wider range of platforms. Similar to the nightly builds mentioned in the introduction, these are not for production -use but may be useful for testing new features as they go into the JDK21 +use but may be useful for testing new features as they go into the new codebase. By using the specific early access tags you can also report issues upstream more easily by knowing exactly which tagged level you have discovered any problems with.