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Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03

From	Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03
Date	2012-02-16 06:20 +0000
Message-ID	<slrnjjp816.dpg.fredrik@scout.jonson.org> (permalink)
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In <4f3c55ee$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Arne Vajhøj wrote:

>  As far as I can see then OpenJDK does not even have a u3 only
>  u2 and u4.

It seems that oracle have reserved odd releases solely for security updates,
while feature releases are even numbered. I'm not suprised that they do the
even numbered releases out in the open with openjdk, while keeping the odd
releases with security fixes secret as long as possible.

I haven't seen this policy stated authoritively publicly anywhere, but the
pattern of changes in the three updates of jdk 7 sure seems to support it.

--
Fredrik Jonson

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new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-14 16:29 -0800
  Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-02-15 11:12 +0100
    Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-15 07:44 -0800
      Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-15 20:04 -0500
    Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-15 08:57 -0800
    Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-15 20:03 -0500
      Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-02-16 06:20 +0000
        Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 23:05 -0800
          Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-02-16 18:21 +0000
            Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 11:42 -0800
              Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-02-17 05:25 +0000
                Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 02:09 -0800
        Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2012-02-18 06:54 +0000

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