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 OpenJDK 11.0.10+9, on x64 server and desktop environments on Linux, Windows, and macOS. We are also publishing a new early access release for Java 16 for Windows on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and macOS/M1 based on the latest OpenJDK 16+36 release.

Learn more about the preview release and Java at Microsoft in the full announcement blog.

Visit Microsoft build of OpenJDK page to download packages and installers.

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