[TravelPiglet]

Well, Java 8 was released 6 years ago and is basically EOL now. We migrated to Java 11 during the fall and finally most third party libraries we use seems to work fully in Java 11.

[vbezhenar]

Azul will provide free OpenJDK builds for Java 8 until March 2026. It's not EOL.

[topspin]

Amazon provides Corretto 8 maintenance until 2023 as well. It's been a drop in replacement for everything I've needed.

11 is the correct go-to version now. The small but high value language improvements definitely make it worthwhile.