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Java OpenJDK July 2026 Patch & Security Update
Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest July 2026 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Check our release n...
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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 available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. As we said previously when we announced the Preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, Java is heavily used by Microsoft with more than 500,000 JVMs running internally. The Java Engineering Group is very proud to contribute back to the Java ecosystem and help power workloads such as LinkedIn, Minecraft, and Azure! It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.11 and OpenJDK 16.0.1 for x64 server 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 by building your pipelines using the Azure Spring Cloud task to automate Spring Boot application deployments to any number of environments and Azure Regions. Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on automating end-to-end from idea to provisioning Azure resources to building Spring Boot applications to deploying those applications to production. Many of these customers have thou...
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 programmatically. It includes commonly expected features such as starting and stopping a flight recording on a local or remote JVM and reading the recorded file as an InputStream. Azure Application Insights is a production-ready, and detailed Application Performance Monitoring solution that covers Java workloads. In integrating Java Flight Recorder, we can provide deeper insights into the inner works of applications in the JVM. Before deciding to create this libr...
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.