Next Java 7 update release timeline

[David Holmes]

Hi Sam,

On 19/07/2013 11:43 AM, Sam Reid wrote:
> 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

I don't know the schedule for 7u40, but the bug has been fixed in 7u40-b34:

  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u40/jdk/rev/51b0cc3d5102

David
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> Thanks again, looking forward to hearing from you,
> Sam