Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: =?UTF-8?Q?Moritz_M=C3=BChlenhoff?= Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: OpenJDK for Bookworm and beyond Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:50:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Emmanuel Bourg X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Tue Nov 8 19:49:47 2022 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.3 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: NOT_IN_SBL_XBL_SPAMHAUS=-1.5 CL_IP_EQ_FROM_MX=-3.1; rate: -4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/23112 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Y2qyxNqEZ60xKb7k@pisco.westfalen.local Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 29 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: Debian Java , Matthias Klose , "team@security.debian.org" X-Original-Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 20:49:24 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <1645122d-d47b-cc7c-c451-4aab6228dcc3@apache.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:12471 Am Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 12:00:42PM +0200 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: > Hi all, Sorry for the late reply, this got backlogged in my inbox. > The first point is to plan when we'll switch the default JDK to OpenJDK 17. > The transition has progressed well, with 113 bugs fixed already, but there > are still 36 bugs left to fix [1] (this is a much smoother transition than > the jump from OpenJDK 8 to 11 where we had to deal with over 500 bugs). > There are no critical issues, the build tools and the main packages all work > fine. So I suggest that we switch without waiting for the remaining bugs to > be fixed. I propose to switch on October 31th for Halloween, such that the > switch will unleash compatibility nightmares and runtime horrors haunting > those who have ignored the bug reports for months ;) That'll leave > sufficient time to address the remaining issues before the release. Sounds good to me! > If the Security Team agrees I think we should continue with this strategy in > Bookworm and ship OpenJDK 21 in addition to OpenJDK 17. The first OpenJDK 21 > EA release will be available in December well before the freeze in March, so > that fits with the Bookworm release timeline. That's fine with me (if doko continues to update it in unstable) (and if we again only have 17 as the default + 21 preview/secondary JRE). And 11 not in testing. Cheers, Moritz