[7u communication] Changes to JDK 7u10 plans

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Today, Oracle announced that they are adjusting their Java roadmap to
> accelerate security work in upcoming releases.  In particular, many
> non-security fixes previously scheduled for 7u10 are being
> re-targeted to 7u12.  Oracle will be talking about Java security at
> JavaOne, if you're there please try and attend, CON12803 - Making
> the Future Secure with Java.
> 
> This means we will not be creating a 7u10 stabilization forest as
> previously noted, and instead keeping development going on
> jdk7u-dev. We will create a branch for 7u12 when it's ready for
> stabilization.  As always with CPUs, we plan to bulk integrate the
> changes from the October and February CPUs (7u9 and 7u11,
> respectively) when released. We don't expect Oracle JDK 7u10 to
> contain new changesets applicable to OpenJDK 7u10 source code
> repositories.  Instead, we expect the bulk of work on Oracle JDK
> 7u10 to be focused on changes to code that is not part of OpenJDK 7u
> Project.
> 
> If you have questions or concerns, please share them on the jdk7u-dev
> mailing list.
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> --

So, as I understand it,

* There won't be a new non-security update release until u12 (March-April 2013?)
* There'll be proprietary Oracle binaries called 7u10 but no OpenJDK equivalent
* The October and February security CPUs will be added to the main 7u tree.

Are there any plans for OpenJDK security releases?  We're obviously going to have to
do security releases before then, and can by patching our own IcedTea trees.  If we
were using 7u directly, it's not clear what we would base those on, as we don't want
to pull in partial development on 7u12.
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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