RFR: 8370890: Start of release updates for JDK 27 [v7]

[Erik Joelsson]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:53:37 GMT, Nizar Benalla <nbenalla at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Get JDK 27 underway.
>
> Nizar Benalla has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 17 additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - problem list failing test
>  - Merge branch 'master' into start-of-release-27
>  - expand start of release documentation
>  - Merge branch 'master' into start-of-release-27
>  - Changes required for hard 80 character line limit
>  - Update --release 26 symbol information for JDK 26 build 25
>    The macOS/AArch64 build 25 was taken from https://jdk.java.net/26/
>  - revert MAX_COLUMNS to 80
>  - Update LATEST_MAJOR_VERSION in Versions.java
>  - Merge branch 'master' into start-of-release-27
>  - Merge branch 'master' into start-of-release-27
>  - ... and 7 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/193bb114...e5214614

make/conf/version-numbers.conf line 40:

> 38: DEFAULT_VERSION_CLASSFILE_MINOR=0
> 39: DEFAULT_VERSION_DOCS_API_SINCE=11
> 40: DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_BOOT_VERSIONS="25 26"

Need to add 27 to this line.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28130#discussion_r2578923651