[FREEZE] 11.0.3 NOW FROZEN

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi Ichiroh,

Andrew has written in an earlier mail [0], that he is going to do the backport of the Japanese era change. He'll include it in the CPU as well as push it for jdk11u-dev, once ready.

Best regards
Christoph

[0] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2019-April/000864.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdk-updates-dev <jdk-updates-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On
> Behalf Of Ichiroh Takiguchi
> Sent: Dienstag, 2. April 2019 11:19
> To: Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com>
> Cc: 'jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net' <jdk-updates-
> dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Subject: Re: [FREEZE] 11.0.3 NOW FROZEN
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I am sorry to disturb you.
> 
> Japanese era name will be changed by May 1st, 2019.
> Japanese users require following fix for new Japanese era name.
> JDK-8205432 Replace the placeholder Japanese era name [1]
> 
> Current 11.0.3 has placeholder (dummy entry), we really need above fix.
> But fix request for jdk11u has not been approved yet.
> I requested to pick up new Japanese era name fix before. [2]
> I really appreciate to pick JDK-8205432 by 11.0.3.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205432
> [2]
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2019-
> March/000728.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Ichiroh Takiguchi
> IBM Japan Ltd.
> 
> On 2019-04-02 10:22, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > The release tree:
> >
> > https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/
> >
> > is now frozen in preparation for release on 2019-04-16.
> >
> > The final release will be based on 11.0.3+5 [0] and will have a version
> > no lower than 11.0.3+6.
> >
> > There are two changes in the repository after 11.0.3+5 [1] [2]. These
> > changes were not committed until after the agreed deadline of the 1st
> > and so will now have to wait until 11.0.4.
> >
> > I suggest that, in future, we aim to tag the release on the day of the
> > deadline or the last working day before to avoid such confusion.
> >
> > [0] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/rev/dd4470fa81fe
> > [1] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/rev/a68aa56930c0
> > [2] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/rev/22cfec306339