Release timeline

[Anton Kozlov]

Hi,

On 2/21/22 17:04, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> However, it is not clear what is the timeline for the project. Will it be a
> part of the next major OpenJDK release? Will it be backported to previous
> OpenJDK releases (doubt it is possible though)

Sorry, there could be no commitment for the target OpenJDK release. It won't be JDK 18, definitely :)

Backports are possible in the more mature phase. Although it won't be possible to extend the official API for already released JDKs, with some burden of accessing internal details, an application could reach an internal one via reflection or with org.crac[1]. Backports could be possible even now, but it will require some discipline in backporting patches to keep parity in features. We can experiment with this, having enough demand and resources.

Thanks,
Anton

[1] https://github.com/CRaC/org.crac