What does LTS mean for OpenJDK? (original) (raw)

Martijn Verburg martijnverburg at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 17:25:57 UTC 2018

Hi all,

Wouldn’t normally post this on an OpenJDK mailing list but I will add that there is now a new era of commercial support for Java coming in off the back of this.

Oracle and others have put out what I think are very reasonable support offerings and perhaps as an ecosystem we need to start thinking about directly contributing back if we don’t have direct engineering involved in OpenJDK/Java.

I appreciate it’s a step change for those who have been used to $free - but I’d encourage folks to look at those options as well as what might come out of the community for OpenJDK.

Cheers, Martijn

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 17:57, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

2018/8/23 6:24:36 -0700, Jack Shirazi <jacks at fasterj.com>: > There is (still) a lot of confusion in the community about this. Can I > give an example of how I understand this to proceed and please comment > if wrong (I appreciate not set in stone, this is just an example of how > it seems likely from my understanding atm): > > Let's say Java 12 has been released and Oracle announce a security > upgrade. Oracle will apply that to their paid-for Oracle Java 11 build, > and also to the OpenJDK Java 12 build but NOT the latest OpenJDK Java 11 > build. > Correct, assuming that this happens within six months of the release of JDK 12. > > AdoptOpenJDK will also NOT backport that to the OpenJDK Java 11 > build. However the jdk11u project WILL backport that to the OpenJDK Java > 11 build, and AdoptOpenJDK will then support that Java 11 upgraded > version because it will continue to support Java 11, so that upgraded > OpenJDK Java 11 build will then be available (somewhere) for public > consumption. > As Andrew noted earlier in this thread, a good number of individuals and organizations appear to be interested in working on OpenJDK LTS releases, but there are no specific plans as yet. Stay tuned. > - Mark

Cheers, Martijn (Sent from Gmail Mobile)

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