I can confirm that poster #5 is correct - this was not been released into the main stream.
more /etc/os-release ... VERSION="16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" sudo apt-get update ... sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. java -version Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true openjdk version "1.8.0_03-Ubuntu" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_03-Ubuntu-8u77-b03-3ubuntu3-b03) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.03-b03, mixed mode) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1550244 Title: Wrong version set in latest openjdk-8 builds Status in openjdk-8 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The current openjdk-8 build has a wrong version number set. `java -version`, `javac -version` etc. report the version string of this OpenJDK build as "java 1.8.0_01-internal", which is clearly wrong. This also triggers warnings about unsupported version in third party applications. Please update the build process, so that the reported version of openjdk-8 matches the actual version, like "1.8.0_72" or similar. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1550244/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
