Next Java 7 update release timeline

[Sam Reid]

Thanks for your quick response David & Stephen, and for keeping me in 
the loop about the release schedule.

Best Regards,
Sam

On 7/18/2013 8:09 PM, Stephen Fitch wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> I'll let you know when we have the 7u40 b34 EA available as I noticed
> the situation relative to PhET.
>
> As soon as I know the EA schedule I'll let you know.
>
> Regards, Stephen
>
>  Java Platform Group - Sustaining Engineering
>
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> On 7/18/13 6:58 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> 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
>> -----
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again, looking forward to hearing from you,
>>> Sam
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