FYI: Proprietary Oracle JDK 7u10

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Il giorno mer, 12/12/2012 alle 12.21 -0500, Andrew Hughes ha scritto:
> > As discussed on the OpenJDK 6 lists:
> > 
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-September/004630.html
> > 
> > Oracle have released a proprietary update for 7, u10, for which
> > there is no corresponding OpenJDK release.
> > 
> > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u-relnotes-515228.html
> > 
> > The next OpenJDK release will be u12.
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> That's just my opinion, of course, but the features in the release
> notes
> seems all to be related with Applets and Deployment, which are not
> areas
> covered by OpenJDK.
> 
> Even if a release with the same id would be welcomed for OpenJDK, it
> doesn't seem that any of the advertised fixes have any impact or
> meaning
> for OpenJDK at all, so the fact that Oracle released a JDK version
> targeted at OSX and Windows doesn't leave us either exposed or behind
> in
> any way, unless I'm reading it incorrectly, of course.
> 

No, I tend to agree.  I just thought it worth noting that the release had
now happened.

The only OpenJDK viable fix from the release notes would appear to be the
timezone data update and many distros override this using their own
generated data anyway.  Of course, we don't know what unlisted fixes may
be in the release.

> Cheers,
> Mario
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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