With 7u60 development moving ahead at a steady pace, and JDK 8u and JDK 9 Projects ramping up, it's a good time to take a look ahead at the subsequent 7u release. Our development model in JDK 7 Updates allows us to accumulate fixes for future releases in the -dev forest, while working on the next release in a separate stabilization forest.
The next release after 7u60 in this Project would be 7u80. JDK 7u80 would tentatively arrive in early 2015. That's more then a year away from now, and also around the time of the planned end of public updates of Oracle JDK 7. [1] Therefore I expect 7u80 to be the last Oracle-led JDK 7u release developed as part of this OpenJDK Project. With respect to security fixes, Oracle plans to continue to integrate applicable fixes from Critical Patch Updates in the OpenJDK 7u forest until the end of public updates of Oracle JDK 7. New contributions should go to the JDK 9 and JDK 8u Projects first. With the JDK 8u Project starting up, it's a good time to get involved, and start working on testing, adopting and migrating to JDK 8u releases in downstream projects currently using this Project's source code. The reasoning I gave [2] behind focusing 7u60 on bug fixes and enabling migration to 8 holds even stronger for 7u80. I expect the Maintainers of this Project to examine each incoming fix for 7u80 closely to avoid building up a glut of fixes to have to forward port in the future. cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2013-November/008070.html -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Principal Product Manager Phone: +494089091214 <tel:+494089091214> | Mobile: +491737185961 <tel:+491737185961> Oracle Java Platform Group ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Kühnehöfe 5 | 22761 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
