# Is there anything wrong with using the latest JDK 8 release?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-using-the-latest-jdk-8-release/56560
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 27, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-using-the-latest-jdk-8-release/56560 "2016-07-27T21:06:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@MerelyAPseudonym](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MerelyAPseudonym)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-using-the-latest-jdk-8-release/56560/1 "2016-07-27T21:06:33Z")
From [the documentation for Elasticsearch 2.3](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/_installation.html):
> Elasticsearch requires at least Java 7. Specifically as of this writing, it is recommended that you use the Oracle JDK version 1.8.0\_73.
I notice that the documentation doesn’t recommend _at least_ version 1.8.0\_73; it recommends that _specific_ version. Is that deliberate? Or should we feel free to use the latest Oracle JDK 8 release?
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-using-the-latest-jdk-8-release/56560/2 "2016-07-27T21:34:53Z")
Latest 1.8 should be just fine.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-using-the-latest-jdk-8-release/56560/3 "2017-07-05T22:32:22Z")