Oracle's plans to contribute to OpenJDK 6 after November 2012

[Dalibor Topic]

On 4/27/12 11:31 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> back at FOSDEM I received a couple of questions about OpenJDK 6 future after the November 
> 2012 date, with regard to Oracle's planned contributions to it. Tomas Nilsson, Oracle's
> outbound Principal Product Manager for Java SE let JUG leaders and Java champions
> know [0] today that 
> 
> "[..] in line with no longer posting updates of Java SE 6 after November 2012 to Oracle’s
> public download sites, we don’t have plans to contribute further changes to OpenJDK 6 after 
> November 2012. Users of OpenJDK 6 should consider upgrading to OpenJDK 7, or, of course, 
> to Oracle JDK 7, depending on their requirements."
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
> [0] http://markmail.org/thread/vkk7idimoin3z2ag
> 

And in line with Henrik's announcement that Java 6 End of Public Updates is extended to
February 2013 [1] the plan above has been adapted to February 2013.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/java_6_eol_h_h

cheers,
dalibor topic 

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