# Impossible to build Elasticsearch 9.0 anymore
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 11, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364 "2025-11-11T10:59:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@benjamingdocker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benjamingdocker)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/1 "2025-11-11T10:59:44Z")
Good morning 👋
I was trying to build ES 9.0.8 from sources but I am facing some issues. I am not a Java expert so please bear with me I probably do silly things here. However, I do need to build ES from source.
I figured that the gradle build process reads the branches.json file from the main branch to know what are the development branches. But since Oct 15, the 9.0 [has been removed](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/136620) from it which makes gradle to fail with
```auto
Build file '/private/tmp/elasticsearch/rest-api-spec/build.gradle' line: 6
A problem occurred evaluating project ':rest-api-spec'.
Failed to apply plugin 'elasticsearch.yaml-rest-compat-test'.
No value present
```
I am not clear whether 9.0 entered end-of-life and according to the [EOL policy](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) I don't think it is.
Is there a workaround the branches.json file not containing what's needed to build the 9.0 branch ?
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### Author:  [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/2 "2025-11-11T15:05:56Z")
Hi @benjamingdocker,
Welcome! The latest available version is 9.2. Are you able to successfully build the latest branch? Is there a reason you're trying to build 9.0?
Let us know!
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/3 "2025-11-11T16:19:33Z")
> [@benjamingdocker](#):
>
> I am not clear whether 9.0 entered end-of-life and according to the [EOL policy](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) I don't think it is.
From the doc you shared:
> Elastic will provide Maintenance to **the most recent two Minor Releases** of the then-current Major Release, and the final Minor Release of the previous Major Release.
In the case of branch 9, the most recent are 9.2 and 9.1, so I think that 9.0 is not maintained anymore.
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### Author:  [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/4 "2025-11-11T16:45:58Z")
> [@benjamingdocker](#):
>
> Is there a workaround the branches.json file not containing what's needed to build the 9.0 branch ?
that commit just changed a list of versions, did you try just editing it ?
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### Author:  [@benjamingdocker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benjamingdocker)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/5 "2025-11-11T17:39:36Z")
I didn't try and I don't see how I could since the gradle build code downloads it and parses it.
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### Author:  [@benjamingdocker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benjamingdocker)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/6 "2025-11-11T17:40:43Z")
I am working on providing docker images and I have to rebuild ES with the latest versions of Java.
But if 9.0.x is eol, as @leandrojmp pointed out ()thank you by the way for clarifying, I should have read closer…), then I will not do that anymore. So that might be the answer I am looking for.
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### Author:  [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/7 "2025-11-12T11:19:24Z")
Interesting. Is there a particular reason you're not using the official docker images?
> **[elasticsearch | Docker @ Elastic](https://www.docker.elastic.co/r/elasticsearch)**
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### Author:  [@Rene\_Groschke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rene_Groschke)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/impossible-to-build-elasticsearch-9-0-anymore/383364/8 "2025-12-15T14:00:30Z")
I just stumbled over this thread. I think this is a limitation in our build process that should be addressed. At least we should provide a decent fallback.