On 06/12/2013 04:50 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Hi, >> >> Some questions: >> >> 1) are there any estimates for openjdk6 source release? >> >> 2) is current tip from mercurial [1] safe for production usage (I've >> tested points 2 and 3 from release process doc [2] but I'm not sure >> about point 4 (TCK)) >> >> My current employer uses openjdk6 build 27 (with copyMemory patch) for >> server-side apps and we want to upgrade to version with latest security >> patches (and we are not ready for jdk7). >> >> >> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/ >> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/ReleaseProcess.html > > For a more immediate solution, I suggest you look at using the latest IcedTea > release, as all the GNU/Linux distributions do: > > http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/ > > It has the latest security fixes and many backports from OpenJDK 7 that also > went into the proprietary Oracle release of 6 but haven't yet made it into > OpenJDK 6.
If OpenJDK 6 really isn't fit for use we need a list of which backports are in IcedTea 6 that we need. Andrew.
