[8u] RFR(S): 8244548: JDK 8u: sun.misc.Version.jdkUpdateVersion() returns wrong result

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Mon May 11 17:54:53 UTC 2020


On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:18 AM Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
> Thus, the new upper bound for update
> version number is 2^16-1 => 65535 which should be sufficient. I don't
> think OpenJDK 8u will live that long ;-)

Everyone expected 256 to be sufficient for update release numbering,
before the gaps in the numbering scheme were introduced!  I don't know
how we ended up with 2 mod 10.


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