Version strings and update build numbers (determining when an update release goes GA)

[Dalibor Topic]

We provide that information in the communication announcing a specific release. See http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2016-July/005740.html for an example. 

We don't provide separate communication announcing CPU releases on this mailing list,  though, as they are not specifically produced by this Project.

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> On 23. May 2017, at 07:19, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The Adopt OpenJDK community has created an OpenJDK Build farm
> <https://www.adoptopenjdk.net> for as many platforms as possible in order
> to assist with early testing of things like backported patches in jdk8u.
> 
> We have a question on update and build numbers currently used in tags.
> 
> At the moment we are picking up the version string from the tag
> 1.8.0u152-b04, but we're a bit hesitant at making an binary release of that
> particular tag as 1.8.0u152 isn't 'officially' released yet.
> 
> Is there a way to automatically tell when the update version is 'done'?
> For example update 131 was released as jdk8u131-b11....
> 
> Cheers,
> Martijn