Hi Julien, *, On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM Julien Nabet <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've read https://openjdk.org/jeps/541.
"[…] Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27." That is quite a way out, our baseline is using 17LTS currently, and there'd be 25 LTS that's still supported on macOS > I suppose it means we'll have to stop macOS/x64 LO releases and only > propose ARM64 version for macOS? No, Java/JDK won't be the reason to no longer support x86_64 builds of macOS, there must be something very surprising happening wrt JAVA in LibreOffice for that being a concern. macOS 28 will no longer support Rosetta, but of course that doesn't mean all intel macs will be put out of service immediately. I don't think we should drop intel mac support because of Java (and we don't need to anyway) > If it's the case perhaps we should indicate this in release notes of > 26.8 (or 27.2 if it's too late) to prepare people? Nope, not for those. If at all Windows would be affected earlier with the 32bit version, but we hide that already from the download pages, and only very few people complain/look for a 32bit version for Windows. (adoptium already dropped 32bit windows from JDK 25, but there still is 21LTS in between, so also no immediate "threat" of breaking that - and even if JAVA is no longer supported, there's always the option of just building the release without Java support and still have most of the functionality). What the upcoming macOS version might make more difficult/impossible is to cross-compile for intel or rather we'd need to make it a real cross-compilation target instead of a "cross-compilation light" since the new version then cannot run the target binaries anymore. But that also is not an immediate problem, that will only become an issue once the appstore requires the latest-and-greatest version of XCode to to the releases (and then still a logistic/hardware issue since I'd need additional hardware or at least additional external storage to maintain dual-boot with multiple versions) So it will come out end of 2027, and will certainly not be mandatory right away, so 27.2 is not in danger, 27.8 also very unlikely to be affected. ciao Christian
