Why were the Debian+JDK17 images removed in v9.0.63?

[enbwmm]

Hi, prior to version 9.0.63 we had images based on Debian Buster/Bullseye in combination with JDK17, e.g. 9.0.62-jdk17-openjdk-bullseye. Commit 3d32b80 removed these variants leaving only Ubuntu based variants with JDK17. Why were these variants removed?

The Debian-based variants with JDK11 are still present, e.g. 9.0.63-jdk11-openjdk-bullseye. We can't use them, however, due to an issue with cgroups v2 and Kubernetes.

Will the official Debian+JDK17 images be available again or do we have to build our own?

[wglambert]

There no longer exist "official" (or even semi-official) vanilla builds of OpenJDK 17 suitable for our use or for publishing as "OpenJDK" (https://jdk.java.net/17/).

[yosifkit]

See docker-library/openjdk#495 for where the image was removed from openjdk. Since there are no plain builds of openjdk 17 available, then we had no choice but to remove it and users are forced to choose one of the vendor-supplied JDKs.

See also docker-library/docs#2142 and #260.