Accelerating the JDK release cadence (original) (raw)

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Sep 11 19:39:21 UTC 2017

2017/9/6 9:00:36 -0700, martijnverburg at gmail.com:

Hi Mark,

This is really welcome news, I suspect you're going to have a very happy X Million developers (the twitter storm is already glowing with positive reaction)! Like Mario I'm also curious about how the release numbering will work. The change to semver in Java 9 was welcome, but did require some tooling changes.

Yes, it did, and it's an unfortunate accident of timing that we're so soon contemplating another change in the version-string scheme, but there it is.

There's definitely some risk here, but to the extent that people took (or will soon take) the opportunity with JDK 9 to start using the new API (java.lang.Runtime.Version [1]) to compare version strings then they'll find it easier to adapt to this next change.

As for the open sourcing of items like JFR and Mission Control - that's going to be a huge boost to the ecosystem in terms of debug and performance tuning not to mention everything else, so thank you (and to the other Oracle folks who helped make this decision)!

You're welcome!

[1] http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.Version.html

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