[7u communication] JDK 7u40 released today!

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> On 11/09/13 16:33, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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.
> Better early than late I hope! We've been waiting for 7u40 for some
> time. I haven't seen any contributor discuss testing details of 7u40 in
> detail. From an Oracle perspective, I know alot of resources have been
> dedicated to the project and as communicated previously testing results
> were good.
> 
> There's an ongoing project where jdk 8 EA binaries have test results
> published on a build by build basis[1]. You could make contact with that
> team [2] and see if 7u EA results can be published.

Thanks.  I wasn't aware of these.  Are these "EA binaries" OpenJDK?  The link
you sent seems to point to something under a proprietary license, suggesting
this are not OpenJDK builds.  If so, is there any testing of OpenJDK builds?

Something as simple as OpenJDK having been built on architecture x with
options y would be helpful.  The jtreg tests here are a bonus.

The Zero failure I found was during the build.

> >
> > 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?
> 7u40 branch ? 7u40 has shipped. 8016131 was fixed in July. A push to
> jdk7u-dev will be possible. I've created a bug for you:
> 
> 8024648: 8016131 breaks Zero port

That was part of my point.  There's some mention of 7u40 appearing in mid-September
and then it suddenly appears yesterday evening, with no further warning.  I was still
testing builds of it on various platforms and would have liked to have include the Zero
fix in u40.

I'm not sure there's much point putting it in u60 as no doubt they'll be a further HotSpot pull
which will pick up 8022188 [0] already mentioned by Omair.  I didn't find that changeset
until I'd already written the same fix (identical in fact) for u40 and Omair's couldn't be
backported anyway as it carries other changes (a habit I, incidentally, prefer to avoid).
I'm happy to push my version though, if wanted.

However, my main concern is that u40 won't built Zero.  Are there going to be no further updates to it,
not even for security fixes?

[0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/c54a3122f9c8

> 
> regards,
> Sean.
> 
> [1]
> http://download.java.net/jdk8/testresults/testresults.html?q=download/jdk8/testresults/testresults.html
> [2] quality-discuss at openjdk.java.net
> 
> >
> > [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
> 
> 

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Andrew :)

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