[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8306664: GHA: Update MSVC version to latest stepping [v2]

[Christoph Langer]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:33:21 GMT, Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR bumps the MSVC version for Windows x64 used in GHA to 14.29, just as in head and also for Windows/arm64.
>> 
>> The GHA tests probably won't be green until [JDK-8306543](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8306543) gets backported, I'll refresh this PR after it has landed.
>> Together with a backport of [JDK-8306658](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8306658) we'll be able to reduce GHA runtimes on Windows significantly.
>
> Christoph Langer has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into ghastuff
>  - JDK-8306664
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>    Update MSVC 2019 fox x86_64 to the latest stepping

Thanks for the review. Fix request got approved.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/1291#issuecomment-1525137408