OpenJDK Patching Process

[Andrew Haley]

On 8/23/18 2:31 PM, Ken Heatherly wrote:

> Trying to get a handle on the OpenJDK patching process with recent
> changes to release methodology and cadence.  With 6 month OpenJDK
> releases now happening, for what duration will the n-1 version of
> OpenJDK be patched once the n version is released for GA?  For
> example, OpenJDK 11 is GA September 25, 2018.  If a security issue
> is recognized on OpenJDK 10 in October 2018, will a critical patch
> be created for OpenJDK 10 to address, or will upgrade to Open JDK 11
> be required in order to receive the critical update.

To some extent that is decided by the community, and anyone can
volunteer to provide long-term support for a release. However, we have
converged on the idea that JDK 11 is the long-term-support release,
and it will be supported for years. So, you can't just say "release
n-1": it depends on which is the LTS release.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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