What is current OpenJDK 8 stable release?

[Andrew Hughes]

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.
>

It's also worth making clear that the binaries available at [2] are not OpenJDK
binaries and, as such, are subject to different licensing restrictions.

> Regards,
> Sean.
>
> [1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
> [2]
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index-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?
>>

8u131 as Sean says. 8u122 was cancelled and became 8u152.

If you do a clone of the tag jdk8u131-b11 from the jdk8u
repositories (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/ and friends),
you will have
the OpenJDK version of that release. Unfortunately, there's no source code
releases and I'm currently not aware of any hosting to provide them.

I'd prefer to see a new feature release (the even numbered releases) sooner
rather than later, as there hasn't been one since October (8u112) and
currently there
are a number of fixes that have been backported to the 8u trees months ago
but not released.

>> Thanks,
>> Jan
>
>

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