[7u communication] 7u40 progress update.

[Alex Kasko]

On 08/23/2013 07:27 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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>> On 08/22/2013 04:13 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
>>> Just an update on jdk7u40 progress. Final testing is proceeding well and
>>> we're still on track to meet GA for mid September.
>>>
>>> For developers who wish to test binaries based the latest code in the
>>> OpenJDK jdk7u/jdk7u40 forest, the Oracle JDK 7 Update 40 Early Access
>>> Release based on it is available for download at :
>>> https://jdk7.java.net/download.html . If you are aware of other early
>>> access releases based on jdk7u/jdk7u40 being made available for testing,
>>> please let the mailing list know as well as a reply to this thread.
>> Perhaps binaries based on IcedTea 2.4 branch [1] may be considered as EA
>> releases for 7u40. They are used in some linux distributions [2] and in
>> my unofficial builds on github [3] (apologies for self-promotion link,
>> but it seems legit in this thread).
>
> All distros.  I'm not aware of any using OpenJDK 7u directly.
I meant most distros still use 2.3 branch and only some of them moved to 
2.4.

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> The forest is already updated to u40 b40 and we'll look at doing an updated
> release.
>
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>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sean.
>>
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>> [1] http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/06/10/icedtea-2-4-0-released/
>> [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/java7-openjdk/
>> [3] https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Alex Kasko
>>
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Regards,
Alex Kasko