Next Java 7 update release timeline

[Sam Reid]

Hi there,

My name is Sam Reid, I am a software engineer with PhET Interactive 
Simulations at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Our educational 
simulations (mainly Java) are launched around 40 million times per year 
and we are worried about the bug 8017174 that was introduced in Java 
7u25, which causes our simulations to crash when launched with Java Web 
Start.  We have already heard from numerous users having this problem.  
The fix from JDK8 has already been backported in this commit: 
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/7064285022a0

We are hoping that a new Java 7 update version with this fix will be 
released in time for the new school season to start, mid-August in the 
United States and many other countries.  What is the expected timeline 
for the next Java 7 update release?  Anything we can do to expedite it?  
I was also concerned since the backport was made on July 2 and not 
listed in jdk7u40 build 33 release notes:
http://download.java.net/jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b33.html?q=download/jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b33.html

Thanks again, looking forward to hearing from you,
Sam