# BellSoft

> BellSoft is a San Jose software company built around the less glamorous but essential layer beneath Java applications: the runtime, operating system and container image. Its open-source Liberica JDK is a TCK-verified OpenJDK distribution spanning current, long-term-support and legacy Java releases; Alpaquita Linux supplies a compact base for cloud workloads; Liberica Native Image Kit compiles Java into native executables; and its newer hardened images extend the company into software-supply-chain security. The software is free to use, while BellSoft sells enterprise support, long maintenance windows, engineering help and SLA-backed vulnerability remediation to organizations running business-critical Java.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Founders:** Alexander Belokrylov (Co-founder and CEO), Aleksei Voitylov (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 71 employees, based on supplied company data.
- **Products:** Liberica JDK, Liberica JDK Enterprise Support, Liberica Native Image Kit, Alpaquita Linux, Liberica Mission Control
- **Notable:** Became a top-five OpenJDK contributor by 2018, according to BellSoft's historical contribution data., Contributed JEP 315 for AArch64 intrinsics and JEP 386 for the Alpine Linux port to OpenJDK., Integrated the Portola musl/Alpine work upstream and has maintained the upstream Arm port.

## Products & services

- **Liberica JDK** — A free, open-source and TCK-verified OpenJDK distribution offered in Standard, Full, Lite, Performance and CRaC variants across current, LTS and legacy Java versions.
- **Liberica JDK Enterprise Support** — Paid support plans with long-term maintenance, security patches, migration help and access to BellSoft Java engineers.
- **Liberica Native Image Kit** — A GraalVM-based distribution for compiling Java applications into native executables with fast startup and a smaller memory footprint.
- **Alpaquita Linux** — An open-source, lightweight Linux distribution with musl and glibc options, designed for cloud-native applications, containers and Java workloads.
- **Liberica Mission Control** — A monitoring and diagnostics tool for profiling Java applications and examining Java Flight Recorder data.
- **BellSoft Hardened Images** — Minimal, signed container images with SBOMs, continuous vulnerability monitoring and commercial remediation SLAs for Java and several other language stacks.
- **Hardened Builder for Paketo Buildpacks** — A builder that applies BellSoft hardened base images to Dockerfile-free Paketo application builds for Java, native image, Python, Go, Ruby and Node.js.

## Achievements

- Became a top-five OpenJDK contributor by 2018, according to BellSoft's historical contribution data.
- Contributed JEP 315 for AArch64 intrinsics and JEP 386 for the Alpine Linux port to OpenJDK.
- Integrated the Portola musl/Alpine work upstream and has maintained the upstream Arm port.
- Liberica JDK is a runtime recommended by Spring and Liberica Native Image Kit became a default tool for building Spring Native applications.
- Joined the GraalVM Advisory Board and the Java Community Process Executive Committee.
- Reached approximately 49 million Liberica JDK downloads, 1,500 enterprise users and distribution across 195 countries, according to the company.
- Reported that 2024 customer count and Liberica JDK revenue each doubled year over year, without disclosing absolute figures.
- Released Java 25 LTS builds in 2025 and Java 26 builds in March 2026.
- Expanded from Java runtimes into signed hardened container images and a Paketo Buildpacks builder.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Released a hardened builder for Paketo Buildpacks covering Java, GraalVM Native Image, Python, Go, Ruby and Node.js.
- **2026-07** — Announced a move toward monthly security updates for Liberica JDK and Liberica Native Image Kit, beginning with an additional August release.
- **2026-03** — Made Liberica JDK 26 generally available; BellSoft said it contributed nine fixes to the release.
- **2025-12** — Released Alpaquita Linux 25 LTS with kernel 6.12, updated glibc and musl, and security support through 2029.
- **2025-11** — Introduced BellSoft Hardened Images, extending the product line into signed, SBOM-equipped, continuously patched container bases.
- **2025-09** — Released Liberica JDK 25 LTS with planned updates and commercial support through September 2033.
- **2025-07** — Upgraded Liberica JDK Performance Edition for Java 8 and 11 workloads to use a JVM 21 backend.

## Links

- Website: https://bell-sw.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bell-sw
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/bellsoftware
- GitHub: https://github.com/bell-sw
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@libericajdk

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Last updated: 2026-08-10