[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8349603: [21u, 17u, 11u] Update GHA JDKs after Jan/25 updates

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:41:28 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> What is the reason for continually changing the bootstrap JDK? Surely it would be better to test that someone can upgrade to the latest version from a much older one. Ideally, we'd be bootstrapping with JDK 10.

We've long since moved away from testing this (bootstrap with 10). There is the option of bootstrapping JDK 11.0.0 GA with JDK 10 and then build the latest update version for 11. IMO, the reason should be to not use unpatched JDKs even for building.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/2991#issuecomment-2665050622