[7u communication] JDK 7u40 released today!

[Sam Reid]

 >  It would have been good to have had more warning than just "mid 
September" [0]. I see no discussion of testing being carried out on u40 
or a more precise release date.

My team felt the same way, we were planning to do another full set of 
regression testing on the latest u40 release candidate before it went 
public, but weren't sure how many more release candidates there would be 
or when they were slated for release.  But on the upside, initial 
testing on the actual u40 release is looking good so far!

Sam

On 9/11/2013 9:33 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I'd like to announce that JDK 7u40 has become available for download
>> today at :
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
>>
>> Thanks to all those who have contributed towards it.
>>
>> OpenJDK 7u40 source code is available via the 7u40 stabilization forest
>> [1] and a 7u40 source bundle [2] has also been made available. I've also
>> updated the OpenJDK 7u project page with latest status. I plan to ask
>> OpenJDK ops team for the jdk7u40/jdk7u40-dev forests to become read only.
>>
>> If you're packaging this release, it could be useful to let subscribed
>> members know about it via communication on this mailing list. Please
>> continue to contribute fixes back to the jdk7u-dev forest [3] which is
>> already gathering changes for the next non-CPU JDK7u release.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sean.
>>
>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u40/
>> [2] http://jdk7.java.net/source.html
>> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev
>>
> It would have been good to have had more warning than just "mid September" [0].
> I see no discussion of testing being carried out on u40 or a more precise release date.
>
> It appears that Zero is broken in u40 by 8016131.  How do I go about getting
> this fix [1] into the u40 branch?  Is that possible?
>
> [0] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2013-August/007592.html
> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.4/hotspot/rev/09f439dfd7b9