From aph at redhat.com Sat Oct 1 08:14:06 2016 From: aph at redhat.com (Andrew Haley) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 09:14:06 +0100 Subject: OpenJDK6 End Of Life Message-ID: <00b50659-c1b3-a3e8-0956-c8a3258a300f@redhat.com> OpenJDK6 is reaching the end of the road. Oracle's JDK 6 had its last public update in 2013, and I took over the leadership role in OpenJDK 6 in March of that year. But it's looking decidedly old now, and we should persuade people to move to something more recent. Since I took over the lead we've maintained OpenJDK 6, back-porting important bug fixes and some updates, but I think the time has now come to say goodbye. We can't maintain it for ever, and we've been strongly recommending people to move to a more recent release for some time. With all that in mind, I intend to resign leadership of OpenJDK 6 at the end of his year. If any appropriately-qualified person wishes to take over the project leadership, they may apply to do so. However, I expect that the OpenJDK 6 project will quietly end. OpenJDK 6 EOL: December 31, 2016. Andrew. From mark.reinhold at oracle.com Thu Oct 20 16:30:44 2016 From: mark.reinhold at oracle.com (mark.reinhold at oracle.com) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:30:44 -0700 Subject: CFV: New Project: JDK 10 Message-ID: <20161020093044.269497520eggemoggin.niobe.net> I hereby propose the creation of the JDK 10 Project, with me as the Lead and the Governing Board as the sponsoring Group. The goal of this Project will be to produce an open-source reference implementation of the Java SE 10 Platform, which will be specified in a corresponding JSR, yet to be submitted, in the Java Community Process. The Project's repositories will initially be open for bug fixes and small enhancements only. Features for the release will be proposed and tracked via the proposed JEP 2.0 Process [1]. Anyone who holds the Author, Committer, or Reviewer role in the JDK 9 Project [2] and has contributed at least one changeset to JDK 9 will be granted the same role in the JDK 10 Project. Votes are due by 17:00 UTC next Thursday, 27 October [3]. Only current OpenJDK Members [4] are eligible to vote on this motion. Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list. Replying to this message is sufficient if your mail program honors the Reply-To header. For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [5]. - Mark [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk9 [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenJDK+JDK+10+CFV&iso=20161027T1700 [4] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members [5] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote From volker.simonis at gmail.com Thu Oct 27 17:13:55 2016 From: volker.simonis at gmail.com (Volker Simonis) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:13:55 +0200 Subject: The s390x port has landed in jdk9! Message-ID: Hi, I'm proud to announce that today the last bits of the s390x port have arrived in the jdk9/hs forest! Everybody who's interested is invited in building, testing and commenting on the new port :) Many thanks to the whole SAP JMV team, the initial s390 porters and Lutz Schmidt, Martin Doerr and Goetz Lindenmaier for their fantastic work! Finally, this port wouldn't have been possible in such a fast and smooth way without the unlimited support of the Hotspot Group Lead Vladimir Kozlov! Let's celebrate the Linux/s390x port as the latest addition to the OpenJDK platform zoo! Regards, Volker