IcedTea for Java 8

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 2014-03-18 17:54, Naaman Newbold skrev:
> > Pardon the interruption, but are there plans for IcedTea support for Java
> > 8?
> 
> 
> The following hg currently builds OpenJDK 8 using IcedTea 3.
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/
> 
> IcedTea 3 with OpenJDK 8 support is still unreleased.
> 
> Cheers
> Xerxes
> 

Yes, we'll have a 3.0 release eventually, probably based on u20. Currently,
6 & 7 occupy most of our time as this is what people are actively using.

We do plan to scale back 6 & 7 support soon to allow more resources for 8;
more on this to come.
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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