Regarding JDK-8049846 Bug

[David Holmes]

On 20/10/2016 11:54 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:19 PM, "Khan N(칸/남규한) [TPMs] ­"
> <morethanair at coupang.com> wrote:
>> Hello, Volker
>>
>> Thank you for your answer.
>> You mean I need to contact to Oracle for this issue, right?
>>
>
> You need to contact the one who builds your jdk binaries. If you are
> using the Oracle JDK that's obviously Oracle.
>
>> Could you elaborate what 'downporting' means?
>
> Downporting is the process of integrating a change from the head
> revision (in this case jdk9 to a lower release, e.g. jdk8 or jdk7).

"we" also refer to this as backporting. JBS can create backport issues 
for things that should be backported.

David


>>
>> Regards,
>> Khan
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Khan,
>>
>> as you can see in the bug, there has been no downport of 8049846 to
>> jdk8u until now. Take a look at bug
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072463 for example to see
>> how a bug entry looks like which has been downported to previous Java
>> versions.
>>
>> There's no automatism for downporting bug fixes. You should request it
>> from the distributor of your Java binaries (i.e. Oracle if you use
>> Oracle JDK, RedHat if you're using OpenJDK on RHEL/Fedora, etc...).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Volker
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:49 AM, "Khan N(칸/남규한) [Cloud Platform
>> Tribe]" <morethanair at coupang.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are migrating our system from Java 7 to Java 8.
>> One of our teams could not upgrade to Java 8 because of JDK-8049846 issue.
>>
>> I found the resolved date for the issue was Sep 13th, 2016.
>> Can we know when the expected release date and version for this issue?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Khan
>>
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>> 남규한 ( Khan ) ㅣ
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>>
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>>
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