Install on FreeBSD
We love BSD at Asymm, and we think the platform deserves first-class JVM support. Eliya's FreeBSD build is a Research Preview planned for late 2026: one manual quarterly release, community-supported, no CVE SLA. It is an honest signal of commitment, not a closed door. Production-grade FreeBSD support (quarterly CPU SLA, CVE response timeline, commercial support contracts) is on the table if customer demand justifies it; see the signup at the bottom of this page if your team would adopt Eliya on FreeBSD with production-tier guarantees.
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- No commercial support. No SLA. Issues via GitHub only.
- Security patches best-effort: target one quarterly manual rebuild per CPU window.
- Not published to SDKman: SDKman has no FreeBSD platform classification, so no vendor publishes FreeBSD JDKs through it. Install via direct download.
- Built on top of the OpenJDK BSD Port Project (github.com/openjdk/bsd-port) (community patches that have historically lived outside upstream OpenJDK and are now being merged back into the mainline OpenJDK development tree with FreeBSD Foundation sponsorship). Eliya's FreeBSD Research Preview tracks this upstream work.
- For workloads needing enterprise JDK support on FreeBSD today, the FreeBSD ports tree's
openjdk25package is the production-supported option available right now. Eliya FreeBSD is a Research Preview alongside it, useful for evaluation and for surfacing platform-specific issues we then carry upstream. If you'd adopt Eliya on FreeBSD with production-tier guarantees, sign the production-grade FreeBSD support waitlist; your signal directly influences whether and when Eliya graduates from Research Preview.
Download the Preview archive
Planned late 2026; first Preview archive pending.
Verify
The version string will include the -preview suffix to make the Preview status visible in every log line.
Known caveats
- AWT / Swing / JavaFX are unsupported on FreeBSD (as with most JDK BSD ports).
- Some HotSpot features (ZGC, Shenandoah) may have platform-specific caveats from the BSD patchset. Test before relying.
- JFR works.
jcmdworks. Standard server workloads (Netty, Spring Boot, gRPC) work.
Production-grade FreeBSD support: demand signal
The Research Preview is what we ship today. Production-grade FreeBSD support (quarterly CPU within two weeks of upstream, CVE SLA aligned with the Linux build, commercial support contracts) is demand-gated. If your team would adopt Eliya on FreeBSD with production-tier guarantees, sign the waitlist below; your signal directly influences the decision.
Signal demand for production-grade FreeBSD support
Production-grade FreeBSD support is demand-gated. Your signup is the demand signal that influences whether and when it ships; we'll email you when it lands.
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