Eliya is an OpenJDK 25 LTS distribution from Asymm Systems for compliance-conscious / regulated production. Eliya shipped its first GA earlier this month. The bet is that some of the production and compliance policy belongs inside the runtime, because some controls (redacting a heap dump as it is written, attesting a flag's origin, enforcing a compliance baseline etc.) can only be done in the JVM, not by a wrapper around it. Phase 1 establishes the policy point with -XX:EliyaProfile=Production (heap-dump-on-OOM, NMT, exit-on-OOM, crash-log paths, container awareness, diagnostic options). The runtime-only capabilities are Phase 2+. Reproducible (table stakes for this audience, not the pitch - Temurin does both, and more). If Temurin or Corretto fits you, stay on it. Eliya is not for all. Hard questions welcome, including "why not just a wrapper"??