This is an announcement that openjdk-17 is now in the repos. You can update your environmental variables to use this for your applications like so:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib64/openjdk-17
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

And then java --version should report that you are using Java 17. Currently the version in stable is 17.0.2 however 17.0.3 should be in the next sync.

Many applications in the repo have already been updated to use openjdk-17 (in fact you may have already had openjdk-17 get installed to your system if you have a java-based application installed) and the remaining ones are being worked on. Once we finish determining if all applications can be updated to use openjdk-17 or if they need to remain on an older version expect that we will update maven/gradle/etc so that they use openjdk-17 by default. This may be a breaking change for you however you can always override the JDK to use by appropriately setting the JAVA_HOME and PATH variables.

Harvey stickied the discussion .
14 days later

I am the new
Is there entry level documentation?

10 days later

Bazel is still struggling with openjdk-17:

FATAL: bazel crashed due to an internal error. Printing stack trace:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.ParameterFile.writeContent(ParameterFile.java:118)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.ParameterFile.writeParameterFile(ParameterFile.java:111)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.CommandLines$ParamFileActionInput.writeTo(CommandLines.java:291)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.SandboxHelpers.writeVirtualInputTo(SandboxHelpers.java:409)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.SandboxHelpers.atomicallyWriteVirtualInput(SandboxHelpers.java:104)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.SandboxHelpers$SandboxInputs.materializeVirtualInput(SandboxHelpers.java:368)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.SandboxHelpers$SandboxInputs.access$100(SandboxHelpers.java:313)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.SandboxHelpers.processInputFiles(SandboxHelpers.java:479)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.worker.WorkerSpawnRunner.exec(WorkerSpawnRunner.java:193)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.SpawnRunner.execAsync(SpawnRunner.java:245)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.AbstractSpawnStrategy.exec(AbstractSpawnStrategy.java:146)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.AbstractSpawnStrategy.exec(AbstractSpawnStrategy.java:108)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.SpawnStrategy.beginExecution(SpawnStrategy.java:47)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.SpawnStrategyResolver.beginExecution(SpawnStrategyResolver.java:68)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.java.JavaCompileAction.beginExecution(JavaCompileAction.java:386)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.Action.execute(Action.java:133)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$5.execute(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:907)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$ActionRunner.continueAction(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:1076)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$ActionRunner.run(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:1031)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionState.runStateMachine(ActionExecutionState.java:152)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionState.getResultOrDependOnFuture(ActionExecutionState.java:91)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor.executeAction(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:492)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.checkCacheAndExecuteIfNeeded(ActionExecutionFunction.java:856)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.computeInternal(ActionExecutionFunction.java:349)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.compute(ActionExecutionFunction.java:169)
	at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.AbstractParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run(AbstractParallelEvaluator.java:590)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.AbstractQueueVisitor$WrappedRunnable.run(AbstractQueueVisitor.java:382)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make java.lang.String(byte[],byte) accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.lang" to unnamed module @21de60b4
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:354)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:297)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.checkCanSetAccessible(Constructor.java:188)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.setAccessible(Constructor.java:181)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.unsafe.StringUnsafe.<init>(StringUnsafe.java:75)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.unsafe.StringUnsafe.initInstance(StringUnsafe.java:56)
	at com.google.devtools.build.lib.unsafe.StringUnsafe.<clinit>(StringUnsafe.java:37)
	... 30 more
4 days later

I only need Java to be able to use Zotero plugin with Libreoffice. Do I need to install openjdk 17? Or should I stick to an older version?

Harvey unstickied the discussion .