Canonical has said that they will not, as announced earlier, remove the deprecated Oracle Java packages retroactively from user’s machines.

The Sun JDK packages will remain installed on current systems with no further security updates. On new systems, it will no longer be possible to install the packages from the partner archive.

This does have, however, serious security implications as the Oracle Java packages will not be updated anymore within Ubuntu. Thus, users are urged to switch to OpenJDK as soon as possible.

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Canonical has said that they will not, as announced earlier, remove the deprecated Oracle Java packages retroactively from user's machines. The Sun JDK packages will remain installed on current systems with no further security updates. On new systems, it will no longer be possible to install the packages from the partner archive. This does have, however, ...