On 17.09.18 09:31, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > There has ever been an EOL for older JDKs. But sometimes You're bound > to a specific JDK version in Your working environment, so IMO always > replacing is a bad strategy. The problem is, in larger companies it > sometimes takes some weeks or even months until some software is > allowed to be upgraded. And I'd at least want to check which features > are available in which JDK - or which bugs are present. Well, tell the OpenJDK/Oracle people, they are the ones who came up with this release cycle. It has nothing to do with Arch Linux.