I'd like to propose a jcheck patch for the proposed tag changes which will help identify GA JDK builds [1] webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8180946/webrev/ JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180946 [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-October/002094.html -- Regards, Sean.