From owner-freebsd-java@freebsd.org Mon Nov 16 14:57:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BEE8A301FC for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:57:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2141899 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id E6832A301F9; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:57:25 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: java@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5170A301F6 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A716A1895 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947D1207A9 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:57:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:57:24 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=feld.me; h=cc :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=FdSQK4pU/zluqFfj1k8gzT99G0U=; b=s+0pew xLM6ukgR4qwSV0V30PvPjsxc9DbBbsS+YnY582ecCkzlhLLzmWc8m1uFAGekVLUi 4Q+IIAwC6nDbFbHEbmb3kW81+rCwGR7U6fMuBz+VdwrzU40D9vNUHBOt0Al4KQ7D wAp7WiwuuK/DMx/5U+FPjN4F7oWmH7iCPAEfg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=FdSQK4pU/zluqFf j1k8gzT99G0U=; b=d34DzV2s1tzj6IkmkEUSgKHp6lXkO7PwUR4KC8Oa+oo0n1e QRBHI29jBFBHWN4D9xxZUvpYDBli9XK6PWDbbqBI0J3CeIbl3d/IsWGDR3Pgp+7C asPA/gwGT88l05HAIJpi/UKeE42l3V7OLzj4LE2qSwrSzgOjzaf3GsUwgJ+Y= Received: by web3.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 5C85B102F34; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:57:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1447685844.882362.441101225.09D0492D@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: A61Ns9jtufAkNUZSJIuJJ7P8H6T6Zy2wFJShZNVXtAOm 1447685844 From: Mark Felder To: Robert Simmons Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, ports-secteam@freebsd.org, "Jung-uk Kim" , java@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-37ba1837 Subject: Re: java/openjdk8 and jre Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:57:24 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <1447601433.2163074.440262121.5DEBCEDD@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1447682799.243430.441054785.7914EFBA@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:57:26 -0000 On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, at 08:20, Robert Simmons wrote: > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/ > That page lists it as released. Ok, here's the actual Oracle release notes on it which is a far more useful reference. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u66-relnotes-2692847.html The most frustrating part of this is not understanding their crazy version scheme. I get that the next release is 8u66, but it took far too long to find that the patch file is b17 (patch-8u66-b17.xz) and now I still don't know what JDK_BUILD_NUMBER is supposed to be incremented to as that gets updated every time there's a new release. -- Mark Felder feld@feld.me