Hi, The next set of webrevs for OpenJDK 6 will upstream the 2013/06/18 security updates from IcedTea 1.x. Included in this set are two HotSpot changes.
However, for continued long-term support of HotSpot on OpenJDK 6, it seems preferable to rebase on the same version used by OpenJDK 7, thus giving 6 access to the same security patches. In the case of 2013/06/18, it was difficult to backport the HotSpot changes to the aging hs20 in OpenJDK 6, especially as there is very little information about these patches, and future updates may be worse still. Rebasing to a newer version is long overdue. The question is; do we do this as part of the next release with the security updates or do we include the hs20 security patches now for b28 then revert them and update to hs23 for b29? We'd be especially interested in hearing the opinion of any existing users of OpenJDK 6 as opposed to IcedTea 1.x. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
