Comment 28 for bug 1799946

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Oracle has dropped the leadership of the OpenJFX 8 project [1] and nobody else took it over, so it is pretty much dead.

According to the official OpenJFX website [2] it is being developed at https://github.com/openjdk/jfx and as of now the download page indicates that the only supported versions are 11 (LTS version), 15, and 16 [3].

That said, there is one repository still backporting some fixes to OpenJFX 8u [4] which, should anyone volunteer, could be used to create a new openjfx-8 package.

[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2019-January/023039.html
[2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX
[3] https://gluonhq.com/products/javafx/
[4] https://github.com/ojdkbuild/upstream_openjfx-8u