Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: jdk 1.8.0_92 Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:47:39 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <3b3dhbd808u0c7753dn3iojt8u0anqpe1p@4ax.com> <1b71bf31-462b-431b-bfbb-b08c3849cf03@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ANasIS7Js9OyLQwgloeBLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34185 On 4/22/2016 9:04 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7:44:07 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> It is just a String so: >> >> 1.80_nnn 1.80_nnnn 1.80_nnnnn ... >> >> :-) >> > > Well, currently there's nothing after the 91/92. I would think > adding _nn after the string would only be for minor patches. I don't > think they've had more than 99 updates for one Java version before. > If they name it 1.8.0_100 that should annoy some people since "100" < > "90". I don't think that will hold them back. It did not prevent them from going 1.8.0_5 to 1.8.0_11. >>> Java 9 coming soon >> >> March 2017 is the latest ETA I believe. > > Java 8 has been out for many months. I thought the schedule was one > major version per year. I think it was one every other year. Java 8 came out in 2014. Java 9 was originally planned for 2016. But it got postponed to 2017. Not the first big IT project to get delayed. :-) Arne