Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 08:07:39 +0200 From: Michael Osipov <1983-01-06@gmx.net> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Future of java/openjdk6 and java/openjdk7 Message-ID: <935ee70b-0f6e-1813-25c3-ced836143e32@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20190802014149.GA59118@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20190802014149.GA59118@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Am 2019-08-02 um 03:41 schrieb Greg Lewis: > Oracle ended official releases of JDK 7 in April of 2015, and JDK 6 even > earlier. In the FreeBSD ports collection both java/openjdk6 and > java/openjdk7 have fallen out of maintenance and are considerably behind > in terms of updates (which likely include fixes for security > vulnerabilities). In addition, openjdk6 will soon become unbuildable in > FreeBSD 12-STABLE based on > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D234792 > > With OpenJDK 8 having been the default JDK for a number of years now, > OpenJDK 11 and 12 both being available (and soon 13) I would suggest > that both openjdk6 and openjdk7 be removed, along with any ports > depending explicitly on them(*) which are unable to be updated to use a > newer version. Being an Apache Maven PMC member and a happy FreeBSD user, we guarantee that the entire Maven stack runs on top of Java 7+, so I run all integration tests for all components I change on a regular basis on several BSD boxes (home, work) to test compat outside of the monotonic Windows/Linux world. Just because Oracle does not provide any binary packages for Java 7 it does not meean that it is not supported. There are a lot of vendors still providing Java 7 packages, e.g, Azul Systems, RHEL, HPE for HP-UX (Java SE 7 is supported till July 2022 and Java SE 8 is supported till March 2025) and likely others. Michael
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