[8u] Respin of 8u272 with JDK-8250861?

[Andrew Hughes]

On 19:44 Tue 03 Nov     , Volker Simonis wrote:

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> 
> I wonder what's your current position about a respin of 8u272 with the
> fix for JDK-8250861.
> 
> It looks like for 11u it was decided to create 11.0.9.1 with this fix
> and I wonder if we shouldn't do the same for 8u272 which suffers from
> the same bug. The fix for JDK-8250861 has already been pushed to the
> 8u-dev repository [1], but that's only for 8u282 in January?
> 
> What do the maintainers think?
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker
> 
> [1] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/hotspot/rev/7f7c1e1fbc8a

Sorry, I only saw that a 11u respin had been agreed today.

We'll do a 8u release too with this additional fix. It'll be 8u275,
to follow the same nomenclature as we did with 8u265. I'll announce
that in a separate thread and notify ops that we need this additional
version.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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