[jdk9] Heads up: Hotspot version string output is changing to match that of the JDK

[Alejandro E Murillo]

apologies for the late reply, was out last week.
the changes going into a specific release are (and were) defined by the
purpose of that release.

Substantial changes are usually added into feature releases as they have
longer development (hence testing) cycle. Non feature releases, are done 
more
frequently and usually include mostly bug fixes

hope that answers your question
Alejandro

On 12/27/2013 1:24 PM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> A policy question: Does this mean that we can no longer expect large 
> Hotspot changes in a single JDK release?  JDK7 has seen 
> HS21->22->23->24; some of those leaps were pretty substantial.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Alejandro E Murillo 
> <alejandro.murillo at oracle.com <mailto:alejandro.murillo at oracle.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>     There is no longer a separate hotspot version in jdk9 (see
>     attached email for details),
>     so the version string produced by java -version and java
>     -Xinternalversion in jdk9 builds
>     will be changed to match that of the JDK (as was the case before
>     Hotspot express).
>     And also to add additional info for non promoted or developers builds.
>
>     The details of this change are described here:
>
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030011
>
>     a webrev with the fix will be sent soon.
>     Let me know if you have any feedback/suggestion
>
>     thanks
>
>     -- 
>     Alejandro
>
>

-- 
Alejandro