Coming soon: jtreg 7.1

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Peter,

Don't worry, jtreg will continue to support running tests on JDK 8 for 
as long as JDK 8 is supported.

The note about using JDK 11 is about the version of JDK used to run the 
jtreg tool itself, and not about the version of JDK used to run the 
tests.  jtreg supports running tests on all supported versions of JDK, 
JDK 8 on up.

-- Jon

On 11/17/22 12:46 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> We are still supporting Java 8 until EOL, and use jtreg.  I know it’s not a popular tool outside of JDK, but we’ll need to continue using it to test on Java 8 until 2030.   Many of the tests are complex regression tests and the original bug reports are no longer available (Sun’s bug database), unfortunately it’s not practical to change to another test suite.   But I understand you are probably making the update so jtreg can test new features in JDK releases.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 18 Nov 2022, at 2:56 am, Christian Stein <christian.s.stein at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> JDK folk,
>>
>> This is a general heads-up that jtreg 7.1 is ready for use and
>> that we should soon update JDK to use it. There are not many
>> changes to the jtreg tool itself; the most significant change
>> in jtreg 7.1 are bug fixes and improvements in how JUnit tests
>> are reporting their progress.
>>
>> Find a listing of noteworthy changes at [1].
>>
>> Note that starting with version 7 [2], jtreg is compiled with
>> JDK 11 and so requires a recent release of JDK 11 to run it.
>>
>> The plan is to create a PR fo "JDK-8296710: Update to use
>> jtreg 7.1" [3] and integrate it in last week of November 2022.
>>
>> Finally, thanks to everyone who has helped thus far!
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jtreg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
>> [2] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-August/006869.html
>> [3] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8296710