Steve Poole wrote:
Hi all,
JDK7 is using zlib 1.2.3 (which was added to JDK7 back in 2009.)
Zlib's latest version is 1.2.5 - is there any expectation to move to
1.2.5 in JDK7? It seems a real shame to ship JDK7 with a version of
zlib that is so out of date.
More than happy to help contribute towards making this happen. I would
like to know if its already on someone's radar though or to understand
why this is a mad idea :-)
Cheers
Steve
I don't think it's on anyone's radar. Sherman did the last update,
bringing us up from a patched 1.1.3 to 1.2.3. The main thing with zlib
updates is testing and bake time. Have you done any testing with 1.2.5?
While there are some good reasons listed in the ChangeLog, I'm curious
if they translate into any measurable improvement with the zip APIs. On
the testing it would be interesting to check if 1.2.5 is used by any of
the distros as I think (but might be wrong) that OpenJDK/IcedTea6
project have changes to use /usr/lib/libzip.so rather than the snapshot
in the jdk repository and so might already have experience using the
latest version.
-Alan
