jre version?

[Danny88]

As far as i know openjdk latest version now is 11. I'm wondering why some others still prefer installing openjdk 8 instead?

My license is still active here so i hope any staff could give proper support besides of my previous question here. Thanks.

 

[briansol]

8 has been around a long time, it's stable. So is 11 though, really. I'm not sure it makes much of a difference. It's compatible with 8 so any features of 11 are not used.

I use 8.

 

[Paul B]

See here for using a different JDK other than what is bundled.

Elasticsearch is built using Java, and includes a bundled version of OpenJDK from the JDK maintainers (GPLv2+CE) within each distribution. The bundled JVM is the recommended JVM and is located within the jdk directory of the Elasticsearch home directory.

To use your own version of Java, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. If you must use a version of Java that is different from the bundled JVM, we recommend using a supported LTS version of Java. Elasticsearch will refuse to start if a known-bad version of Java is used. The bundled JVM directory may be removed when using your own JVM.

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