[PATCH] jdk7u101-b00 retro-active security patch review

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> A minor versioning bug:
> 
> My latest IcedTea report
> $ java -version
> java version "1.7.0_101"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.6) (7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode)
> 
> But notice that hotspot's minor version is still stuck at 95.
> ./hotspot/make/hotspot_version:37:HS_MINOR_VER=95
> Probably that should have been updated to 101.
> (Yes, there exists code that cares)
> (Yes, it's awful that only hotspot tries to maintain the update
> version in a makefile while the rest of the JDK requires the release
> engineer to provide it)
> 

Yes, I'm aware of this. There's a patch in 8 which syncs the release version
to the HS one, which is why 8 hasn't been patching it (and we consequently have
missed 7). I intend to bring that into 6 & 7 if it's not too problematic.
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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