----- Original Message ----- > A minor versioning bug: > > My latest IcedTea report > $ java -version > java version "1.7.0_101" > OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.6) (7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode) > > But notice that hotspot's minor version is still stuck at 95. > ./hotspot/make/hotspot_version:37:HS_MINOR_VER=95 > Probably that should have been updated to 101. > (Yes, there exists code that cares) > (Yes, it's awful that only hotspot tries to maintain the update > version in a makefile while the rest of the JDK requires the release > engineer to provide it) >
Yes, I'm aware of this. There's a patch in 8 which syncs the release version to the HS one, which is why 8 hasn't been patching it (and we consequently have missed 7). I intend to bring that into 6 & 7 if it's not too problematic. -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: ed25519/35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222
