As of JDK 27, Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port
Summary Deprecate the macOS/x64 port, with the intent to remove it in a future release, in order to reduce maintenance costs. Motivation Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64. Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27.
- ▪Summary Deprecate the macOS/x64 port, with the intent to remove it in a future release, in order to reduce maintenance costs.
- ▪Motivation Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64.
- ▪Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27.
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| Original publisher | Openjdk |
| Canonical URL | https://openjdk.org/jeps/541 |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:52:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-24T17:04:14.025Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-24T17:04:14.025Z |
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Summary Deprecate the macOS/x64 port, with the intent to remove it in a future release, in order to reduce maintenance costs. Motivation Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64. Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27. Maintaining the port is a significant burden. Description An attempt to configure a macOS/x64 build will produce: $ bash ./configure ... checking compilation type... native configure: error: The macOS/x64 port is deprecated and may be removed in a future release. Use --enable-deprecated-ports to suppress this error.
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