OSCAR and Dependency lifecycles
OSCAR Deb Reference Environments
- v1.0 – Updated to current – November 23, 2018
- v1.1 – Updated to current – Sept 29, 2019
- v1.2 – Updated to current – Nov 1, 2021
The following are reference installation environments tested and recommended for installing OSCAR debs. They are not dependencies per se but rather supported combinations that worked at the time.
| OSCAR | Java |
Tomcat | Database | Ubuntu | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Open JDK 11 | 9 | MariaDB 10.3 |
20.04 | 2025 |
| 19 | Open JDK 8 | 8.5 | MariaDB 10.1 |
18.04 | 2023 |
| 15 | Open JDK 8 |
7 | MariaDB 10.0 |
16.04 | 2021 |
| 15 | Oracle Java 8* | 7 |
MariaDB 10.0 | 16.04 | 2018 |
| 15 | Oracle Java 7 |
7 |
MySQL 5.5 |
14.04 | 2017 |
| 14 | Oracle Java 7 |
6 | MySQL 5.5 | 14.04 | 2015 |
| 12_1 | Sun Java 6 | 6 | MySQL 5.5 | 14.04 | 2016 |
| 12 | Sun Java 6 | 6 | MySQL 5.1 | 12.04 | 2013 |
| 10.12 | Sun Java 6 | 6 | MySQL 5.1 | 10.04 | 2012 |
*as of Jan 2019 Oracle Java will cease to be open source for production use
OSCAR and dependencies release cycles
dates are read from general release
to declared public end of life
or when the developers stopped actively fixing bugs
As systems exposed to the internet are always under attack, you are well advised to update to supported versions of OSCAR and its underlying infrastructure.
OSCAR versions
OSCAR 1 Nov 17, 2002-2007
OSCAR 2.2 2007-2009
OSCAR 9.6 2009-2010
OSCAR 9.12 2010-2011
OSCAR 10.6 2010-2011
OSCAR 10.12 2011-2012
OSCAR 12 2012-2013
OSCAR 12.1 2013-Sept 2016
OSCAR 14 2014-2015 (limited release)
OSCAR 15 2016-2019
OSCAR 19 2019
Ubuntu versions
12.04 LTS 2012-2017
14.04 LTS 2014-2019
16.04 LTS 2016-2021
18.04 LTS 2018-2023
Java versions
Java 6 2006-Dec 2013
Java 7 2011-April 2015
Java 8 LTS 2014-Mar 2025
Java 9 2017-March 2018
Java 10 2018-Sept 2018
Java 11 LTS 2018-Mar 2026
Note that Oracle Java requires a commercial liscence to run OSCAR in production as of Jan 2019
Open JDK is a project controlled by Oracle who currently only supports a version for 6 months or so. After that the community takes over support. AdoptOpenJDK provides extended support and binaries for anyone's use including Linux distributions. Support via AdoptOpenJDK for version 8 is planned to 2023 and version 11 to 2022
Tomcat versions
Tomcat 6 2007-Dec 2016
Tomcat 7 2011-Mar 2021
Tomcat 8 2014-June 2018
Tomcat 8.5 2016-
Tomcat 9 2017-
MySQL versions
MySQL 5.0 2005-Dec 2011
MySQL 5.5 2010-Dec 2015
MySQL 5.6 2013-Feb 2018
MySQL 5.7 2015-Oct 2020
MariaDB versions
MariaDB 5.3 2012-Mar 2017
MariaDB 5.5 2012-Apr 2020
MariaDB 10.0 2014-Mar 2019
MariaDB 10.1 2015-Oct 2020
MariaDB 10.2 2017-May 2022
MariaDB 10.3 2018-May 2023
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