For clarification, the article you are referencing pertains to future Java 8 updates and support requiring an Oracle Java SE Advanced Desktop or Oracle Java SE Suite subscription starting in 2019. Therefore yes Java will continue to be free on App Engine Standard, but supported versions of Java on App Engine Standard will most likely be the LTS versions like Java 11 as you mentioned.
As seen with the new Google Cloud Services Platform <https://cloud.google.com/solutions/cloud-services-platform/>, Google is focusing on supporting a hybrid cloud based on Kubernetes. This approach makes use of custom container images which provides the freedom to run your application in any runtime desired (allowing you to update to the latest version of Java and not be stuck with only Java 8 for example). This is similar to the already available App Engine Flexible custom runtimes <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/custom-runtimes/> where you can already deploy on the latest Java versions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/e960577a-5a79-4225-9bc5-29f6c7d07df0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
