# Will Jabref 5.0 work with openjfx 11?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704>\
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**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704 "2019-07-25T10:07:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![j0hannes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/j0hannes/32/373_2.png) [@j0hannes](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/j0hannes)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/1 "2019-07-25T10:07:58Z")

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I couldn’t find any information on that question.

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**Author:** ![tobiasdiez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/tobiasdiez/32/340_2.png) [@tobiasdiez](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/tobiasdiez)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/2 "2019-07-25T14:34:39Z")

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We are working on it: [https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/3421](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/3421)

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**Author:** ![j0hannes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/j0hannes/32/373_2.png) [@j0hannes](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/j0hannes)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/3 "2019-07-26T12:24:54Z")

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That looks quite active, which is good. On the other hand, how difficult would it be to package an old Java version and an old JFX together with Jabref in order to make it independent of the system packages?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/4 "2019-07-26T21:40:59Z")

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Hi,

we also have a snap package of the current dev version:

> <https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/3121>
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> This tracks the current state of the snapcraft image. This main text is updated to reflect the current state.
> Howto install and...

This comes with an appropriate jdk version or requires ones. I’m not that deep into that package stuff.

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/5 "2019-08-26T11:31:26Z")

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The 5.0 alpha and all later versions now require java 11 so you no longer need a snap.

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**Author:** ![j0hannes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/j0hannes/32/373_2.png) [@j0hannes](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/j0hannes)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/6 "2019-08-26T11:47:33Z")

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So I can replace java8-openjfx by java-openjfx in my package?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/7 "2019-08-26T12:30:11Z")

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Yes. Java 8 is no longer needed.

For Windows java 11 runtime is already included in the installer.

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**Author:** ![j0hannes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/j0hannes/32/373_2.png) [@j0hannes](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/j0hannes)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/8 "2019-08-26T12:48:09Z")

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But java 12 won’t do?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/will-jabref-5-0-work-with-openjfx-11/1704/9 "2019-08-26T13:02:13Z")

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No. Not yet. And java 11 is an LTS release so we will stick with it for a long time.