[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8282552: Bump update version of OpenJDK: 8u342

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 17:26:24 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is doing a lot more than bumping the update version.
> 
> I already filed a bug for the .jcheck/conf change: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8282458

I didn't know that existed. Happy to withdraw the `.jcheck/conf` changes from this PR, or withdraw entirely.

> That change should happen under that bug ID.

Sure.

> As to changing JDK_UPDATE_VERSION, we have not set this in the past for 8u and there was objection at the time to doing this. It certainly should have its own PR, separate from the necessary .jcheck/conf change.

I was thinking it would be something we could be doing for 8u so that `java -version` gives the developer an idea which update cycle this would be. We'd have to do `.jcheck/conf` updates every quarter now anyway. Example:


$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_342-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_342-internal-sgeholf_2022_03_02_12_07-b00)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.342-b00, mixed mode)


It still doesn't look like a real production build, which would match 11u IMO. Do you remember what the objection was?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u-dev/pull/1