What is current OpenJDK 8 stable release?

Martijn Verburg martijnverburg at gmail.com
Wed May 24 15:04:44 UTC 2017


Ah heck, saw the other thread got updated, apologies all.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 24 May 2017 at 16:04, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, I hadn't seen this thread earlier, but it ties into a question we had
> as well.
>
> "Is there anyway of automatically telling from Mercurial that a particular
> update release is the one that's available for GA?"
>
> For example jdk1.8.0_131-b01 (an earlier cut) vs  jdk1.8.0_131-b11 (GA)
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On 24 May 2017 at 15:37, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> The OpenJDK 8 Updates forest collects all patches from the Oracle
>> Critical Patch Update releases [1] once they become available. You should
>> consider such releases as stable. In general, the latest JDK releases
>> offered for download [2] can be considered stable. As of today, that's
>> 8u131.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sean.
>>
>> [1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
>> [2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde
>> x-jsp-138363.html
>>
>> On 18/05/17 22:16, Maciej Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We use OpenJDK 8 on Windows (we compile it) in our project. We want to
>>> update it regularly and we want to use stable version. Up to 8u112
>>> version,
>>> every 3 months new 8uXXX version was reaching GA (according to
>>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/, it was consistent and
>>> predictable.
>>>
>>> Currently we are confused, because:
>>> - on http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/ last relased version is
>>> 8u112
>>> (released 7 months ago) and next is to be 8u152 with "TBD" GA date
>>> - webpage for 8u122 exist -
>>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/releases/8u122.html
>>> - http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/tags contain tags for 8u131 and
>>> Oracle Java 8u131 is available.
>>>
>>> So which version of OpenJDK 8 is latest stable: 8u112, 8u122 or 8u131?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jan
>>>
>>
>>
>


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