Removal notices
A removal notice signifies that the item can be removed, typically no sooner than two years from the time the notice was issued. No features or other functions that affect the Liberty zero-migration policy are ever removed.
- 17.0.0.1 removes support for all versions of Inspur K-UX
- 17.0.0.3 removes support for Java SE 6
- 18.0.0.2 removes support for Liberty runtime environment and extended programming model installation from JARs
- 18.0.0.3 removes support for HP-UX, RHEL and SLES on Power Systems - Big Endian, and Solaris
- 19.0.0.3 removes support for the Liberty Ant plug-in at wlp/dev/tools/ant/wlp-anttasks.jar
- 19.0.0.4 removes support for OpenShift Cartridge
- 19.0.0.9 removes support for Java SE 7
- 23.0.0.10 removes support for the WAS Liberty with OSGi Applications installation ZIP archive file
- 24.0.0.8 removes support for Cloud Foundry Liberty buildpack
- 26.0.0.10 removes support for Java SE 8
- 26.0.0.10 removes support for Java SE 11
- 27.0.0.10 removes support for Java SE 17
- 29.0.0.10 removes support for Java SE 21
Removal details
Fix pack when eligible to be removed | Category | Item to be removed | Strategic alternative |
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17.0.0.1 | Operating systems | Support for all versions of Inspur K-UX. | Move to a supported operating system as listed in the WebSphere® Application Server detailed system requirements. |
17.0.0.3 | Java™ | Java SE 6 Removal of Java 6 support aligns with the announced end of service date for the IBM® SDK and JRE for Java 6. For more information, see IBM developer kits lifecycle dates. In this fix pack, the Liberty kernel is recompiled and can no longer run with Java SE 6. |
Use a more recent Java software
development kit (SDK) or Java runtime environment (JRE). Liberty can run with any supported and compliant
Java SDK or JRE, including IBM
Java SDKs. For information about installing Liberty from a ZIP file with Java, see Installing Liberty by extracting a ZIP archive file. For information about
installing IBM
Java SDKs by using IBM
Installation Manager, see the following topics:
|
18.0.0.2 | Installation | Packaging for the Liberty runtime environment, extended programming models, and extras in the following Java archive (JAR) files:
Installation Manager installable Embeddable EJB container and JPA
client feature ( |
Instead of the runtime environment and extended programming models JARs,
install Liberty from the JAR files that
contain the runtime environment and all features that apply to the edition. The names of these JAR files have the following format: wlp-<edition>-all-<fix_pack>.jar For example, wlp-nd-all-16.0.0.2.jar For more information about installation JAR files, see List of installation Java archive files. There are no alternatives for the Installation Manager embeddable container feature and extras JAR file. |
18.0.0.3 | Operating systems | Support for all versions of the following operating systems:
|
Move to a supported operating system as listed in the WebSphere Application Server detailed system requirements. |
19.0.0.3 | Tools | The Liberty Ant plug-in that is packaged with Liberty at wlp/dev/tools/ant/wlp-anttasks.jar, as described in Using Ant to automate tasks for Liberty. | Use the open source Liberty Ant plug-in, which provides more Ant tasks and the latest capability. For information about configuring the plug-in, see the WASdev/ci.ant repository on GitHub. |
19.0.0.4 | Tools | OpenShift cartridge for Liberty | As of OpenShift V3, cartridges are no longer supported. Instead, use WebSphere Liberty images from IBM Container Registry or IBM® Cloud Pak for Applications to enable the Liberty server to be available on OpenShift. |
19.0.0.9 | Java | Java SE 7 The Liberty end of support date for Java SE 7 is September 2019. In the 19.0.0.9 fix pack, the Liberty kernel is recompiled and can no longer run with Java SE 7. |
Use a more recent Java software development kit (SDK) or Java runtime
environment (JRE). Liberty can run with any
supported and compliant Java SDK or JRE, including IBM Java
SDKs. For information about installing Liberty from a ZIP file with Java, see Installing Liberty by extracting a ZIP archive file. For information about installing IBM
Java SDKs by using IBM Installation Manager, see the following topics.
|
23.0.0.10 | Installation | The WAS Liberty with OSGi Applications package, wlp-osgi-<fix_pack>.zip, as described in List of installation ZIP archive files. |
Install Liberty with one of the other installation ZIP archive files and then use the installUtility command to add the OSGi features. |
24.0.0.8 |
Application assembly and deployment Cloud integration |
Availability of the Cloud Foundry Liberty Buildpack on IBM Fix Central stops in August 2024. |
Use WebSphere Liberty or Open Liberty in a cloud native buildpack that is contributed to the paketo open source community at https://github.com/paketo-buildpacks/liberty. For information about paketo buildpacks, go to https://paketo.io/. |
26.0.0.10 | Java |
Java SE 8 The Liberty end of support date for Java SE 8 is October 2026. |
Use a more recent Java software development kit (SDK) or Java runtime environment (JRE). Liberty can run with any supported and compliant Java SDK or JRE, including IBM Java SDKs. See information about updating the SDK or JRE: |
26.0.0.10 | Java |
Java SE 11 The Liberty end of support date for Java SE 11 is October 2026. |
Use a more recent Java software development kit (SDK) or Java runtime environment (JRE). Liberty can run with any supported and compliant Java SDK or JRE, including IBM Java SDKs. See information about updating the SDK or JRE: |
27.0.0.10 | Java |
Java SE 17 The Liberty end of support date for Java SE 17 is October 2027. |
Use a more recent Java software development kit (SDK) or Java runtime environment (JRE). Liberty can run with any supported and compliant Java SDK or JRE, including IBM Java SDKs. See information about updating the SDK or JRE: |
29.0.0.10 | Java |
Java SE 21 The Liberty end of support date for Java SE 21 is October 2029. |
Use a more recent Java software development kit (SDK) or Java runtime environment (JRE). Liberty can run with any supported and compliant Java SDK or JRE, including IBM Java SDKs. See information about updating the SDK or JRE: |