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Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle

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On 9/11/2017 6:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
> 
> <quote>
>      Taking inspiration from the release models used by other platforms 
> and by various operating-system distributions, I propose that after Java 
> 9 we adopt a strict, time-based model with a new feature release every 
> six months, update releases every quarter, and a long-term support 
> release every three years.
> 
>      Feature releases can contain any type of feature, including not 
> just new and improved APIs but also language and JVM features. New 
> features will be merged only when they’re nearly finished, so that the 
> release currently in development is feature-complete at all times. 
> Feature releases will ship in March and September of each year, starting 
> in March of 2018.
> 
>      Update releases will be strictly limited to fixes of security 
> issues, regressions, and bugs in newer features. Each feature release 
> will receive two updates before the next feature release. Update 
> releases will ship quarterly in January, April, July, and October, as 
> they do today.
> 
>      Every three years, starting in September of 2018, the feature 
> release will be a long-term support release. Updates for these releases 
> will be available for at least three years and quite possibly longer, 
> depending upon your vendor.
> </quote>

And:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html

<quote>
   - Starting with JDK 9 we'll ship OpenJDK builds under the GPL [6], to
     make it easier for developers to deploy Java applications to cloud
     environments.  We'll initially publish OpenJDK builds for Linux/x64,
     followed later by builds for macOS/x64 and Windows/x64.

   - We'll continue to ship proprietary "Oracle JDK" builds, which include
     "commercial features" [7] such as Java Flight Recorder and Mission
     Control [8], under a click-through binary-code license [9].  Oracle
     will continue to offer paid support for these builds.

   - After JDK 9 we'll open-source the commercial features in order to
     make the OpenJDK builds more attractive to developers and to reduce
     the differences between those builds and the Oracle JDK.  This will
     take some time, but the ultimate goal is to make OpenJDK and Oracle
     JDK builds completely interchangeable.
</quote>

Arne

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Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-11 18:46 -0400
  Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-11 18:52 -0400
    Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2017-09-12 23:37 +0200
      Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-12 20:01 -0400

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