Patch support for Open JDK 7

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/23/2018 07:03 PM, Nick Maiorano wrote:
> We are trying to understand the support model of OpenJDK 7 vs. Oracle JDK 
> 7. Oracle has stopped providing public patch updates for JDK 7 since May 
> 2015 and only provides paid support. Is the OpenJDK group still providing 
> publicly available patch updates for JDK 7?

Yes, but I intend to stop soon.  We have one more security update and
then we're done.

> Are these identical to the patch updates offered by Oracle.

They are intended to be functionally identical, but it's impossible
for us to know what goes in to Oracle's proprietary releases.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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