RFR: 8257450: Start of release updates for JDK 17 [v2]

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:38:41 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Start of JDK 17 updates.
>
> Joe Darcy has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains eight additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8257450
>  - Update tests.
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8257450
>  - Merge branch 'JDK-8257450' of https://github.com/jddarcy/jdk into JDK-8257450
>  - Merge branch 'JDK-8257450' of https://github.com/jddarcy/jdk into JDK-8257450
>  - JDK-8257450
>  - JDK-8257450
>  - JDK-8257450

Marked as reviewed by jwilhelm (Reviewer).

src/java.compiler/share/classes/javax/lang/model/SourceVersion.java line 234:

> 232:      * @since 17
> 233:      */
> 234:     RELEASE_17;

Would it make sense to have a RELEASE_LATEST for the cases that are just updated to the latest release every six months?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1531