{"id":85622,"date":"2021-04-06T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:40:56","slug":"announcing-preview-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk-for-java-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/06\/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk-for-java-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing preview of Microsoft build of OpenJDK for Java 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we are announcing the first 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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/openjdk\/jdk11u\/tree\/jdk-11.0.10+9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenJDK 11.0.10+9<\/a>, on x64 server and desktop environments on Linux, Windows, and macOS. 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