Discontinuation of Support for IcedTea 1.x

[Andrew Hughes]

Following the proposed end-of-life of OpenJDK upstream [0],
we will be concluding support for the IcedTea 1.x series
with the following upcoming releases:

* 1.13.13, containing the October 2016 security updates in
the upcoming OpenJDK 6 b41 release.
* 1.14.0, based on the same b41 release but containing
the changes from IcedTea 1.x HEAD which were thought too
disruptive for the stable branch release.  The remaining
proposed changes for 1.14.0 will be reviewed and the more
extensive tasks dropped, given the upcoming discontinuation
of this major release series.

Both releases are expected to happen before the end of the
year (2016). There are no plans to produce backports of the
security updates for January 2017 and beyond, either upstream
in OpenJDK 6 or in IcedTea 1.x.

Others are, of course, welcome to take over maintainership of
IcedTea 1.x if they wish to do so.

[0] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2016-October/003606.html

Many thanks for your support over the years,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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