Concern about Java 7u40 timeline

[Seán Coffey]

Yes - JDK-8017174 is fixed in jdk7u40b34. I've pinged the bugs.sun.com 
team about the fact that it doesn't seem to display the latest up to 
date information around build number integration [1]. Hopefully they can 
fix that up.

Regards,
Sean.

[1] http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020493

On 03/08/13 10:13, Holger Brands wrote:
> It seems to me that JDK-8017174 is listed as fixed in build 34:
> http://download.java.net/jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b34.html
>
> But to be sure, you should probably test the early access release:
> http://jdk7.java.net/download.html
>
> Just my two cents,
> Holger
>
>
> 2013/8/2 Sam Reid <Reids at colorado.edu>
>
>> JDK7 Team,
>>
>> My team expressed concern when I mentioned that the Java 7u40 release was
>> being pushed back two weeks to the second week of September.  Our software
>> relies on Oracle's Java and Java Web Start to work, so this will make it
>> very difficult for fall classes to use our award-winning [1] educational
>> materials - used over 40 million times per year. I fear they will get a
>> negative impression both of our group and of Oracle software.  I know that
>> many steps must be completed to release a new update to general
>> availability, but if there is anything that can be done to accelerate this
>> timeline it would be appreciated by us and our many users.  Additionally,
>> if there is something that we can do to speed up the process or help
>> prevent similar issues from happening in a future release, please let us
>> know.  One more thing, JDK-8017174 is still not listed in the j7u40
>> features & changes [2] even for build 35 so I am still a bit confused about
>> that.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Sam Reid
>> PhET Interactive Simulations
>> University of Colorado Boulder
>>
>> [1] http://thetechawards.thetech.**org/the-laureates/stories/1647<http://thetechawards.thetech.org/the-laureates/stories/1647>
>> [2] http://download.java.net/**jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b35.**
>> html?q=download/jdk7u40/**changes/jdk7u40-b35.html<http://download.java.net/jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b35.html?q=download/jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b35.html>
>>