Java 12 / JDK 12: General Availability

[jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com]

Hi,

I didn't see any actual decision on this. Is it enough that there is a bug filed in JBS and a mail thread with five or so people that thinks it is a good idea? Given that this is enough for most code changes that potentially could have a much larger impact on the OpenJDK maybe it's fine. I don't have an opinion here, I'm just curious as to how we make decisions in the OpenJDK.

If there was a decision made, please inform those who actually make the tagging happen - or will there be infrastructure that make this tagging happen automatically?

Thanks,
/Jesper


> On 20 Mar 2019, at 09:37, Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> FWIW: The GA tagging is tracked by this bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8217255
> 
> The bug links to the mailing list discussions. In that discussion, Seán said that he'd ask the project leads to use the ga tags. So it would really be appreciated if ga tags could be used by OpenJDK major releases, too.
> 
> Thanks
> Christoph
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jdk-dev <jdk-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of
>> Lindenmaier, Goetz
>> Sent: Mittwoch, 20. März 2019 09:12
>> To: mark.reinhold at oracle.com; announce at openjdk.java.net
>> Cc: jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: [CAUTION] RE: Java 12 / JDK 12: General Availability
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> we are missing the -ga tag in the OpenJDK repository:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk12/
>> 
>> We had expected a tag similar to jdk-11.0.2-ga:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/rev/0a8cde5d5ceb
>> 
>> Best regards,
>>  Goetz.
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jdk-dev <jdk-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of
>>> mark.reinhold at oracle.com
>>> Sent: Dienstag, 19. März 2019 17:55
>>> To: announce at openjdk.java.net
>>> Cc: jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Java 12 / JDK 12: General Availability
>>> 
>>> JDK 12, the reference implementation of Java 12, is now Generally
>>> Available.  We’ve identified no P1 bugs since we promoted build 33 over
>>> three weeks ago so that’s the official GA release, ready for production
>>> use.
>>> 
>>> GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:
>>> 
>>>  https://jdk.java.net/12
>>> 
>>> Builds from other implementors will no doubt be available soon.
>>> 
>>> This release includes eight features [3]:
>>> 
>>>  189: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector (Experimental)
>>>  230: Microbenchmark Suite
>>>  325: Switch Expressions (Preview)
>>>  334: JVM Constants API
>>>  340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
>>>  341: Default CDS Archives
>>>  344: Abortable Mixed Collections for G1
>>>  346: Promptly Return Unused Committed Memory from G1
>>> 
>>> along with, as usual, hundreds of smaller enhancements and thousands of
>>> bug fixes.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to everyone who contributed JDK 12, whether by creating features
>>> or enhancements, fixing bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access
>>> builds.
>>> 
>>> Coming up next ... lucky 13!
>>> 
>>> - Mark
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
>>> [2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-
>>> September/004281.html
>>> [3] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12