Accelerating the JDK release cadence (original) (raw)

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Sep 11 19:38:21 UTC 2017

2017/9/6 8:39:32 -0700, Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com>:

This is fantastic news Mark, together with the recent Security group, I really like where this is all going, thanks to you and all the involved people to really pushing to the openness!

Thanks!

I'm curious about the model and how it will practically work out, i.e "a new feature release every six months, update releases every quarter, and a long-term support release every three years". Does it means that the long-term support is the equivalent of today jdk7jdk8/jdk9 etc.. while the other will be basically just development version in between with various degree of stability? Or is it the goal that every version will be production ready?

The latter: Every feature release will be production-ready.

Another question is about open sourcing the commercial features. Wow, this is really awesome, kudos! Is that "limited" to the bits that are inside the JDK or are you planning to open source mission control as a whole too?

We intend to open-source both Flight Recorder and Mission Control.

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It's exciting times waiting ahead of us.

Indeed!

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