OpenJDK 7u91 and IcedTea

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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. =)
> 

I've tagged the forest with 2.6.2pre02:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.6/

I'll update IcedTea 2.6 to work with it later today. That includes everything
planned for 2.6.2 with the exception of the security material.

> --
> Tiago Stürmer Daitx
> Software Engineer
> tiago.daitx at canonical.com
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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