Proposal: Newer version-string scheme for the Java SE Platform and the JDK (original) (raw)
Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Nov 2 15:31:27 UTC 2017
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On 02/11/17 15:11, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
- $EMERG -- The emergency-release counter, incremented only when it's necessary to produce an emergency release to fix an urgent security issue.
I'd like to modify this slightly because not every critical issue is an urgent security issue, and we must allow ourselves to fix bugs in a timely manner. An example of such a bug would be a crash in the GC caused by incorrect locking. Let's not paint ourselves into a corner.
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