Source releases questions

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> Some questions:
> 
> 1) are there any estimates for openjdk6 source release?
> 
> 2) is current tip from mercurial [1] safe for production usage (I've
> tested points 2 and 3 from release process doc [2] but I'm not sure
> about point 4 (TCK))
> 
> My current employer uses openjdk6 build 27 (with copyMemory patch) for
> server-side apps and we want to upgrade to version with latest security
> patches (and we are not ready for jdk7).
> 
> 
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/
> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/ReleaseProcess.html
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Alex Kasko
> 

For a more immediate solution, I suggest you look at using the latest IcedTea
release, as all the GNU/Linux distributions do:

http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/

It has the latest security fixes and many backports from OpenJDK 7 that also
went into the proprietary Oracle release of 6 but haven't yet made it into
OpenJDK 6.
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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