Public update of JDK8 will end 2019 - January as mentioned by Oracle . But since Xenial has the package OpenJDK8 and Xenial is LTS until 2021 - April, does this mean that we can rely on receiving updates incl. security updates for Xenial after 2019 - January?

Thank you.

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According to :

"OpenJDK 8, the former upstream LTS release, is still available and has been moved into the community-supported universe repository. Security updates for OpenJDK 8 will be provided until April 2021 for both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS."

This means that you will be OK until April 2021, but after then you will need to find an alternative source¹ for OpenJDK 8 with security patches.

My advice would be to migrate your application to Java 11 before then.

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^{1 - For example, adoptOpenJDK plan to continue supporting Java 8 until "at least May 2026".}

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