Chapter 3. Planned changes to naming convention for Windows build artifacts

From October 2024 onward, Red Hat plans to introduce naming changes for some files that are distributed as part of Red Hat build of OpenJDK releases for Windows Server platforms.

These file naming changes will affect both the .zip archive and .msi installers that Red Hat provides for the JDK, JRE and debuginfo packages for Red Hat build of OpenJDK versions 8, 11, and 17.

The aim of this change is to adopt a common naming convention that is consistent across all versions of OpenJDK that Red Hat supports. Red Hat build of OpenJDK versions 8, 11, and 17 will be aligned with the naming convention that Red Hat has already adopted for Red Hat build of OpenJDK 21. This means that Red Hat build of OpenJDK 21 will not require any naming changes.

These planned changes do not affect the files for the Linux portable builds of any Red Hat build of OpenJDK version.

Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17.0.12 is the last release where Red Hat plans to use the old naming convention for Windows artifacts. The following list provides an example of how the planned naming changes will affect each file for future releases of Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17: