Coming soon: jtreg 7.5

[Christian Stein]

JDK folk,

jtreg 7.5 didn't make it as the default version for JDK
mainline in November; due to incompatible behaviour
in its new LIBRARY.properties support and existing
tests. See the following issue for details:

https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/CODETOOLS-7903882

The current plan is to revise the implementation to
make it a) backward compatible and b) also achive the
original goal of giving (back) control of compilation
options to library and test authors alike.

This and other minor bug fixes and version updates
will be released as jtreg 7.5.1 - which is then the new
target to be the default version for JDK 25-ea, early
next year.

Please pardon the late update on this topic.

Cheers,
Christian

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From: Christian Stein
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2024 13:22
To: jdk-dev at openjdk.org
Subject: Coming soon: jtreg 7.5

JDK folk,

This is a general heads-up that jtreg 7.5 is ready for use and
that we should soon update JDK to use it. The most significant
changes in jtreg 7.5 are the restoration of the jtdiff tool and
new support for a LIBRARY.properties file in the directory
specified in the @library tag of tests. We also updated jtreg to
include JUnit 5.11.0

Find a listing of all noteworthy changes at [1].

The plan is to make jtreg 7.5 the default version for JDK 24-ea
starting November 2024.

Thanks to everyone who has helped thus far!

[1] https://github.com/openjdk/jtreg/blob/jtreg-7.5+1/CHANGELOG.md