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Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle

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On 9/12/2017 5:37 PM, Sebastian wrote:
> Am 12.09.2017 um 00:52 schrieb Arne Vajhøj:
>> 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>

> These are very good decisions! Who would have thought I was going to 
> like Oracle's stewardship of Java. This is going entirely in the right 
> direction.

I think the big positive is that it sends a clear signal that
Oracle want to push Java forward full speed. That is good.

I like:
- more frequent releases
- the full sync between Oracle Java and OpenJDK

I do not care that Solaris and 32 bit Windows are
becoming second class OS'es.

I am not sure that I like the short term and long term
versions model. I think that is more smart than good.

But overall pretty good.

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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