When we started bundled a JDK into Elasticsearch with 7.0 we also introduced a "no-jdk" distribution for folks that had no intention of using the included JDK. In hindsight this added complexity and confusion around our distribution variants for little benefit. We only provide no-jdk variants of our archive distributions, for packages (rpm/deb) and Docker we only publish artifacts with an included JDK. For the release of 8.0 we want to unify this and remove the no-jdk altogether so that all Elasticsearch distributions will include a bundled JDK.

There are a few items to consider:

• Remove generation of of no-jdk artifacts from the build.
• Remove publishing of no-jdk artifacts from release manager.
• Update download webpage to no longer link to no-jdk distributions and remove no-jdk page.
• Remove any documentation specifically related to no-jdk distribution (if any).