Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64. Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27. Maintaining the port is a significant burden.
↫ JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal
The port won’t yet be removed, but will be in a future release. Considering the number of Intel Macs that must surely still be in use today, this does seem a little premature to me.
Counterpoint: how many new/fully up to date Java/jvm programs are being made that could justify keeping the build alive. The current Java versions will continue to run for a good while yet so itll likely be a long time before you find yourself in a situation where you cant run a version of a java program you need, at that point it would likely be nice to invest in newer hardware but if you cant then Linux is always there. It does suck to have to ditch a system for no great reasons but the wheels of time do turn for every bit of hardware
Not only this, current LTS JDK25 (w/ Apple x86 support) will be supported until 2030/31. That is still a long time.