Hi, I'd like to give you an update on where we are with JDK 8. For the past months everyone has been working hard on bug fixing in order to be able to build a release candidate of JDK 8 in the latter part of January. At this stage only showstoppers (P1) are being considered for fixing in the initial JDK 8 release. Non-showstopper bugs will be deferred to a later release in order to ensure we keep to the JDK 8 schedule [1] and can ship on March 18.
We have a few fixes that are pending integration but overall things are looking very good and we're on-track to have the release candidate built before the January 23 deadline. As we're approaching the deadline for building the final release candidate we're making some slight changes to the build promotion schedule. The January 16 promoted build will be done according to the build schedule. Beyond that date builds will be made on demand based on what fixes have gone in. We're making this adjustment to keep the turnaround time as short as possible if we have to take a fix and respin. Kind regards, Mathias Axelsson, Oracle JDK 8 Release Manager [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/
