----- Original Message ----- > I'd like to announce that JDK 7u40 has become available for download > today at : > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html > > Thanks to all those who have contributed towards it. > > OpenJDK 7u40 source code is available via the 7u40 stabilization forest > [1] and a 7u40 source bundle [2] has also been made available. I've also > updated the OpenJDK 7u project page with latest status. I plan to ask > OpenJDK ops team for the jdk7u40/jdk7u40-dev forests to become read only. > > If you're packaging this release, it could be useful to let subscribed > members know about it via communication on this mailing list. Please > continue to contribute fixes back to the jdk7u-dev forest [3] which is > already gathering changes for the next non-CPU JDK7u release. > > Regards, > Sean. > > [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u40/ > [2] http://jdk7.java.net/source.html > [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev >
It would have been good to have had more warning than just "mid September" [0]. I see no discussion of testing being carried out on u40 or a more precise release date. It appears that Zero is broken in u40 by 8016131. How do I go about getting this fix [1] into the u40 branch? Is that possible? [0] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2013-August/007592.html [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.4/hotspot/rev/09f439dfd7b9 -- 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
