Where did openjdk:8u131-jdk-alpine disappear to?

[alexellis]

We've been using openjdk:8u131-jdk-alpine for community usage of the OpenFaaS templates and I got an issue report from a user saying that he wanted a newer version of the OpenJDK 8 for Alpine Linux.

I came to the tags page and could only see JDK 13 / 14 listed, and the Dockerfiles are missing for the earlier builds.

Can you bring me up to speed please?

Thanks,

Alex

[tim-hellhake]

They are hidden on page 6.
https://hub.docker.com/_/openjdk?tab=tags&page=6.

[alexellis]

I'm not seeing the alpine version

[wglambert]

Alpine isn't officially supported by the OpenJDK project so our variants reflect that #322, #211 (comment), #235 (comment)

13 and 14 uses the latest builds from https://jdk.java.net/13/
#272

[tim-hellhake]

@alexellis Sorry I missed that.
Last alpine version seems to be 8u212-jdk-alpine.
https://hub.docker.com/_/openjdk?tab=tags&page=23

[alexellis]

Tim perhaps we can use that version for now and Investigate the AWS distribution too?

[tim-hellhake]

Sounds good.
212 is way better than 131.

[tim-hellhake]

Azul seems to provide alpine images with the latest jdk8.
https://hub.docker.com/r/azul/zulu-openjdk-alpine

[alexellis]

Who is Azul?

[tim-hellhake]

A company specialized on the jvm.
They provide tck compliant jdk builds.

builds of OpenJDK 8 will be updated until March 2026

[yosifkit]

Since the "missing" Alpine-based images are on purpose, I'll close.

[alexellis]

Can you elaborate why they are missing "on purpose"?

[tianon]

See the links in @wglambert's comment above (#345 (comment)) for details:

Alpine isn't officially supported by the OpenJDK project so our variants reflect that #322, #211 (comment), #235 (comment)

13 and 14 uses the latest builds from https://jdk.java.net/13/
#272

The comment from #235 (comment) is particularly relevant:

Yeah, the alpine port is not in a supported release, since it's not in the mainline code base, so it's only available as early access builds of OpenJDK Project Portola http://openjdk.java.net/projects/portola.

It works, but at this stage it basically needs community contributors to help maintain it and get it into mainline - see https://twitter.com/MikaelVidstedt/status/984920426655526912 for details. Interested contributors should drop by portola-dev to discuss specifics.

In other words, the OpenJDK project does not (yet) officially support Alpine Linux. The work to do so is in-progress, but has insufficient contributor support and help is needed.

To discuss this further, I'd recommend joining the "portola-dev" mailing list.