HEADS-UP: plan to integrate a newer WebKit into 9-dev next week.

[Jonathan Giles]

I'm not involved in WebKit work at all (so I'm no authority on this), but it sounds like what you're asking is already answered in Kevin's email that you quoted.

-- Jonathan
Sent from a touch device. Please excuse my brevity.

On 31 May 2016 07:52:25 GMT+12:00, Matthieu BROUILLARD <matthieu at brouillard.fr> wrote:
>Sorry previous mail sent before fully written. :-(
>
>Will this enhancement be backported to JDK8?
>
>Matthieu
>
>On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Kevin Rushforth <
>kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> As a heads-up, we plan to push an updated WebKit to FX 9-dev early
>next
>> week [1]. If there are no build problems, they will be integrated to
>9
>> master the following week for jdk-9+119. We then plan to backport the
>newer
>> WebKit (to keep them in sync) to 8u-dev a couple weeks later.
>>
>> The only new tool needed to build this is CMake [2] version 3.4 or
>later
>> (we will use 3.4.1 to build).
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156698
>>
>> [2] http://cmake.org/
>>
>>