OpenJDK 7u91 and IcedTea

[Tiago Daitx]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hmmm... going by this, the next CPU is not unembargoed until the 20th:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html

Hmm, indeed. Whatever date is right, we know it is close.

> As with u85, we'll add the backported security patches to create
> OpenJDK 7 u91, then integrate this into IcedTea 2.6.2 for release.
> This will happen as close to unembargo as possible.

Great!

> There's not much you can do with the security stuff, but you could
> certainly test pre-releases of 2.6.2. I intend to make sure everything
> else is ready upstream today by backporting the fixes that have been
> soaking in HEAD/2.7. If you're interested, I can ping you when
> we tag 2.6.2pre02. The final 2.6.2 release will be this plus the
> security changes from u91.

Yeah, that would be awesome. I'm keeping track of the repository just
in case. =)

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Tiago Stürmer Daitx
Software Engineer
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