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What changed in each release, as a user notices it. GitHub's release pages list the pull requests.

0.6.3 (2026-10-20)

  • 13 more distributions, the rest of what Foojay lists: AdoptOpenJDK (adpt, adptj9), Eliya (eliya), OJDKBuild (ojdkbld), OpenLogic (opnlgc), Red Hat (rdht), Semeru certified (semcrt), Gluon GraalVM (gln) and GraalVM CE for JDK 8 to 19 (grl8, grl11, grl16, grl17, grl19). Red Hat installs from tar.xz, and OJDKBuild on Linux, OpenLogic on macOS and Gluon GraalVM before 22.1 from zips. A .sdkmanrc takes SDKMAN's old identifiers for them, such as 11.0.10.j9-adpt and 22.3.3.r17-grl. See distributions.md.
  • Mandrel and Liberica NIK install by the GraalVM version they carry again: java@23.1.12-mandrel and java@23.1.8-nik work, vfox search java mandrel lists every release, and java@23-mandrel installs the newest 23.x, 23.1.12.1-mandrel, which runs Java 21. In October 2026 Foojay moved that version from java_version to distribution_version, and since then release 0.6.2 fails on such versions with No JDK found, lists one Mandrel per Java major and installs Mandrel 23.1.8 for java@21-mandrel. Installs it made since then keep names after the Java version (21-mandrel, 21.0.12.1+2-nik), and vfox still finds them by those names; uninstall one to get what the spec means now. See distributions.md (#106).
  • A .sdkmanrc takes SDKMAN's identifiers of Mandrel and Liberica NIK with the JDK after .r: java=25.0.4.r25-nik selects 25.0.4-nik, where release 0.6.2 selects the newest installed release of the major. Of a release that comes for two JDKs, the plugin installs only the newer one's build, so 22.1.r11-mandrel selects nothing. See sdkmanrc.md (#109).
  • The notes printed by vfox add java, vfox update java and vfox info java are a link to the README, which lists every short name and shows how to search a distribution. Release 0.6.2 gives five short names there but not how to list their versions, while vfox search java lists OpenJDK only (vfox#390).
  • Oracle GraalVM and GraalVM Community go by GraalVM's own version, which Foojay has given as distribution_version since October 2026. Release 0.6.2 reads java_version, which now holds the JDK's version. So it installs the feature release 25.4.4.1.1 for java@25.0.4.1-graal, and for java@25-graal whenever a feature release is out on the JDK of the newest 25.0 build, and vfox search java graal lists no feature release. Now java@25-graal installs the newest build of the 25.0 line (25.0.5-graal on 2026-10-20), java@25.0.4.1-graal installs GraalVM 25.0.4.1, and the feature release is java@25.4.4.1.1-graal. java@25-graalce installs 25.4.4.1.1-graalce from Oracle's GraalVM Download Service, where 0.6.2 installed the same file from GitHub as 25.4.4.1-graalce (#105).
  • A 25.0 name that release 0.6.2 installed after Foojay's change can hold a feature release: 25.0.4.1-graal is GraalVM 25.4.4.1.1, 25.0.4-graal is 25.2.4 and 25.0.3-graal is 25.1.3, and the same goes for these names with -graalce. vfox does not install a name it already has, so if the GraalVM version that java -version prints differs from the name, vfox uninstall it and install it again. 25.0.4.1-graalce, 25.0.4-graalce and 25.0.3-graalce no longer install at all, as GraalVM Community's 25.0 line ends with 25.0.2.
  • A bare major such as java@21-tem asks Foojay what vfox search asks and installs the newest release of the major that the search lists. Release 0.6.2 has Foojay pick it (latest=available), and as Foojay caches each question on its own, for half an hour after a release that can install a build vfox search does not list yet. Dragonwell 11 on Windows x64 and on Linux x64 with musl now installs the Extended build of 11.0.32, as java@11.0.32-albba does, where 0.6.2 installs the Standard one for java@11-albba (#113).
  • vfox use java@25-graal and a .sdkmanrc holding java=25-graal select the newest installed build of Oracle GraalVM's 25.0 line, the build vfox install java@25-graal installs. Release 0.6.2 selects the newest installed release of 25, which is a monthly feature release as soon as one is installed: with 25.0.5-graal and 25.4.4.1.1-graal installed, vfox use java@25-graal selected the second, while vfox install java@25-graal reported the first as installed. A feature release is selected by its full version (java@25.4.4.1.1-graal), or by the bare major where nothing else of 25 is installed. A .sdkmanrc naming a 25.0 release that is not installed, such as java=25.0.3-graal, falls back the same way. java=25.4.4+1-graal, which names a feature release as SDKMAN does, still takes the newest installed release of 25. GraalVM Community is not affected, as its feature releases are what it still ships (#110).
  • VFOX_JAVA_GITHUB_MIRROR sends the downloads from GitHub through a mirror, as in export VFOX_JAVA_GITHUB_MIRROR=https://gh-proxy.org/. Foojay links the JDKs of most distributions to GitHub Releases (Temurin, Liberica and GraalVM Community among them). github.com is slow or out of reach in some regions. The value is a prefix that goes in front of the GitHub URL. Downloads from other hosts do not change. See mirror.md.

0.6.2 (2026-10-18)

  • .sdkmanrc works under vfox 1.x again. Release 0.6.1 fails with expected 0 arguments for func() []string, got 1 under vfox 1.x (tested with 1.0.12 and 1.0.13), and vfox hides the error (#65).
  • vfox use java@21, a bare major, works under vfox 1.0.13. Release 0.6.1 fails there with cannot unmarshal string into plugin.PreUseHookResult (#65).
  • .sdkmanrc matches SDKMAN's jbr and JavaFX identifiers (#78), zero-padded releases (#85) and early-access identifiers (#88, #96). It selects the JDK it names when several of the same major are installed (#84). See sdkmanrc.md.
  • A bare major installs the newest release. java@21-tem is 21.0.12.1+1-tem and not 21+35-tem (#74). java@25-graal installs 25.0.4.1-graal, the newest build of the 25.0 line, where release 0.6.1 installed 25-graal (#101).
  • vfox use java@21.0.8-tem finds the installed 21.0.8+9-tem (#76). The same goes for OpenJDK names with -open or openjdk- (#77) and for zero-padded releases (#92).
  • java@21.0.5+63130-jb and java@28.ea.15-open install the build they name and not the newest build of the release (#83).
  • vfox search on Windows lists releases that ship only as tar.gz (#81).
  • The plugin no longer sets GRAALVM_HOME (#93).
  • java@tem and java@-tem, a distribution without a version, ask for one. Release 0.6.1 stops with attempt to index a non-table object(nil) with key 'match' for the first and installs the newest release for the second (#99).
  • vfox search no longer marks GraalVM's monthly feature releases as LTS (#100).
  • The repository has a container e2e suite for Linux and Windows, see e2e.md (#65, #82).

0.6.1 (2026-09-12)

  • On macOS the Java home is found by its bin/java, so archives with a vendor-named bundle or Contents/Home work (#63).

0.6.0 (2026-09-12)

  • JDKs for Linux loong64 from the Loongnix archive, see loongnix.md (#62).
  • vfox use keeps the -fx of a JavaFX build (#60).
  • JetBrains Runtime installs on Windows 11 (#58).

0.5.4 (2026-06-01)

  • Early-access builds are installed as java@26.ea.1-graal (#57).

0.5.3 (2026-01-19)

  • JavaFX builds with the -fx suffix (#48), see javafx.md.
  • Alpine and other musl systems get musl builds (#50).
  • Windows x64 asks Foojay for x64 again. 0.5.2 sent amd64 there (#52).

0.5.2 (2026-01-18)

  • arm64 asks Foojay for aarch64, which is what it expects (#46, #47).

0.5.1 (2026-01-02)

  • vfox use java@21 is left to vfox, which matches a bare major against the installed versions.

0.5.0 (2025-09-29)

  • Version strings in asdf's order work, java@temurin-21 (#17).

0.4.x (2024-04)

  • 0.4.0 reads .sdkmanrc.
  • 0.4.3 asks Foojay for glibc builds on Linux (#14).

0.1.x and 0.2.x (2024-04)

  • 0.1.0 is the first release, with 17 distributions.
  • 0.1.2 adds vfox search java all (#5) and makes open the default distribution (#6).
  • 0.2.1 adds Liberica Native Image Kit (#10).