What does LTS mean for OpenJDK?
mark.reinhold at oracle.com
mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Thu Aug 23 16:56:13 UTC 2018
2018/8/23 6:24:36 -0700, Jack Shirazi <jacks at fasterj.com>:
> There is (still) a lot of confusion in the community about this. Can I
> give an example of how I understand this to proceed and please comment
> if wrong (I appreciate not set in stone, this is just an example of how
> it seems likely from my understanding atm):
>
> Let's say Java 12 has been released and Oracle announce a security
> upgrade. Oracle will apply that to their paid-for Oracle Java 11 build,
> and also to the OpenJDK Java 12 build but NOT the latest OpenJDK Java 11
> build.
Correct, assuming that this happens within six months of the release of
JDK 12.
> AdoptOpenJDK will also NOT backport that to the OpenJDK Java 11
> build. However the jdk11u project WILL backport that to the OpenJDK Java
> 11 build, and AdoptOpenJDK will then support that Java 11 upgraded
> version because it will continue to support Java 11, so that upgraded
> OpenJDK Java 11 build will then be available (somewhere) for public
> consumption.
As Andrew noted earlier in this thread, a good number of individuals
and organizations appear to be interested in working on OpenJDK LTS
releases, but there are no specific plans as yet. Stay tuned.
- Mark
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