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End of Updates, Support and Availability of the Zulu for Azure builds of OpenJDK
Starting January 1st, 2022, Microsoft and Azul will no longer provide updates or support for the Zulu for Azure build of OpenJDK. In addition, repositories, and the user download site for Zulu for Azure binaries may no longer be available after July 1st, 2022.
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – May 2021
Welcome to May’s updates on VS Code for Java. In this edition, we will share with you Java Formatter Settings Editor, generating tests from source file, debugging enhancement and Jupyter Notebook for Java.
Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and ...
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – April 2021
Welcome to VS Code update for Java. Another busy and productive month. Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner extensions got new features.
Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipeline Task for deploying Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Cloud. You can get started...
Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11.0.11 & 16.0.1 (EA) Available
The Java at Microsoft Team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11.0.11 & 16.0.1 (EA for Windows AArch64 / ARM64).
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – March 2021
It’s blogging time again. Welcome to VS Code update for Java. In the last couple of months, our engineers have been working on a few very important things. Now, it’s time to uncover. Let’s start.
Microsoft JFR Streaming Library for Java Flight Recorder
Today we are happy to share the first release of our JFR Streaming library. With this library, developers can easily manage Java Flight Recordings ...
Announcing Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Today we are excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10, on x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows.