How to stop the Java Auto Upgrade from JDK 17 to JDK 18

Question

I am using oracle JDK 17 in my cloud desktop and it is upgrading to oracle JDK 18 automatically. Since we are using Java 17 in our project, I had to reinstall the JDK 17 on every time it is upgrading to JDK 18. I want to turn off the auto update of Java. is there a way to turn off the Auto upgrade of Java 17 to 18.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Thank You.

Answer 1

You need to reinstall Oracle JDK-17 but with an additional configuration file.

Create a file named config.txt.

In that file write this line:

AUTO_UPDATE=Disable

1. Open your terminal with administrator privileges.
2. Go to the directory where installer is present, using cd command.
3. Run this command installer.exe INSTALLCFG=config.txt, NOTE: installer.exe is the installer file which you have downloaded
4. Install Oracle JDK as normal

Here's more details from official oracle docs