Will there be update of openjfx-8u?

[Martijn Verburg]

Out of curiosity - what was the last release of OpenJFX 8? If I'm reading
the repos correctly it should be 8u60?

Cheers,
Martijn


On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 14:01, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>
wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> Well isn't that true as well for jfx-12 - or is this maintained? What
> makes jfx-12 different from jfx-8? Or is the plan to remove jfx-12 once
> jfx-13 is released, ...?
>
> Anyways, I accept this and I'll see how I can get that forked to my own
> github account (once I have a need for it :-)
>
> Tom
>
> On 11.06.19 13:55, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> > If someone wants to create a new project and fork the openjfx/8u-dev/rt
> > repo there, that would be fine...as long as everyone understand that it
> > is a fork of an unmaintained code base.
> >
> > Since openjfx/8u is not being maintained, neither the
> > javafxports/openjdk-jfx repo nor the new (for project Skara) openjdk
> > project on GitHub would be suitable.
> >
> > -- Kevin
> >
> >
> > On 6/11/2019 3:25 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What I asked some time ago is that the github fork also contains the
> >> latest u8-state before it got frozen - similar to eg jfx-11, jfx-12 (and
> >> most likely soon jfx-13 branch).
> >>
> >> This would at least give us all a central place we can create our forks
> >> on (I understand nobody is willing to maintain merge back changes
> there).
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> On 10.06.19 22:29, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> >>> I recommend that you upgrade to JDK 12 + openjfx 12 if you want to keep
> >>> current, since openjfx-8u is not supported.
> >>>
> >>> If you must stay on JDK 8, Oracle is supporting JavaFX in JDK 8 through
> >>> March of 2022 [1], so you could check into that (note that this list is
> >>> not the place to discuss support, however). Otherwise, you are on
> >>> your own.
> >>>
> >>> -- Kevin
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 6/9/2019 7:52 PM, guoge (A) wrote:
> >>>> Thanks for your reply, Kevin
> >>>>
> >>>> I wonder to know if I'm still using JDK8 with JFX8 because JFX 11 can
> >>>> not match with JDK8 (as I know),
> >>>> How can I deal with the vulnerabilities of JFX8?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Guo Ge
> >
>
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