[8u] TLS 1.3 to land in 8u soon - start testing now

[Andrew Hughes]

On 18:23 Thu 27 Aug     , Martin Balao wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As you know, Azul and Red Hat have been working over the last months on
> the backport of the SunJSSE engine from JDK-11.0.7 to 8u [1] (see CSR in
> [2]). This new version of the engine brings support for TLS v1.3.
> 
> We are expecting to include this backport in the next October 2020
> release: OpenJDK 8u272.
> 
> As a result, it would be very valuable to us that the whole community
> starts building and testing now.
> 
> We have the 8u-jsse-incubator repository [3] with all patches applied
> (jdk8u272-b01 based) and the code will soon land on the 8u main line.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin.-
> 
> --
> [1] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8245466
> [2] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8248721
> [3] - https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-jsse-incubator
> 

A reminder to all that we rampdown for 8u272 after tomorrow.

I will merge the jsse-incubator into 8u-dev (and then the 8u build
promotion) at that point, unless there are any objections.

Merging at this point gives us the option to roll back to the
rampdown point and push TLSv1.3 back to 8u282, should some
major blocker be found.

I believe the CSR is still pending. Andrew Haley, if you're happy
with the CSR in its current state, then I'm happy to proceed with
the merge while we wait for formal approval from the CSR team.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
OpenJDK Package Owner
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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