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Eclipse Temurin 8

brew install --cask temurin@8 v8,492,09

OpenJDK 8 distribution from the Eclipse Foundation with prebuilt binaries and long-term support.

Why you might care

Temurin is a reliable, free, open-source JDK maintained by the Eclipse Adoptium project with regular security updates and broad OS support. Choose this if you need Java 8 for legacy applications or development, and prefer an officially-backed alternative to Oracle's JDK.

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