Quick question...

The Aternos forums are now deprecated

Learn more about this change here.

For help regarding Aternos, we recommend you to visit our support center.

  • My runtime environment on the Options page is set to Java 15, so why does it say this at the top of my log?

    System Info: Java 1.8 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 25.222-b10) Host: Linux 4.4.0-164-generic (amd64)


    And this in the log?

    [19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] ************************************************************
    155[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * WARNING - YOU ARE RUNNING AN OUTDATED VERSION OF JAVA.
    156[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * PAPER WILL STOP BEING COMPATIBLE WITH THIS VERSION OF
    157[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * JAVA WHEN MINECRAFT 1.17 IS RELEASED.
    158[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] *
    159[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * Please update the version of Java you use to run Paper
    160[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * to at least Java 11. When Paper for Minecraft 1.17 is
    161[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * released support for versions of Java before 11 will
    162[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * be dropped.
    163[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] *
    164[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * Current Java version: 1.8.0_265
    165[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] *
    166[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * Check this forum post for more information:
    167[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] * https://papermc.io/java11
    168[19:33:26] [Server thread/WARN]: [io.papermc.paper.util.PaperJvmChecker] ************************************************************


    :aternos: :/

    • Official Post

    I'd say it's a bug in Paper.


    Are you sure that your server has Java 15 selected?

    Paper says it detected Java 8.

    You have to restart the server after changing the Java Version for the changes to take effect

  • Sorry, I had multiple servers confused. But even though Java 8 is selected, how come the message at the top says 1.8? Is this the JDK version?


    System Info: Java 1.8 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 25.222-b10) Host: Linux 4.4.0-164-generic (amd64)

  • Toothy

    Closed the thread.