#7403: OpenJDK-1.8.0.72
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Reporter: fo | Owner: pierre.labastie
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: high | Milestone: 7.9
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by pierre.labastie):
Replying to [comment:7 fo]:
> Thanks, that's good for all who knows this this association.
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> [...]
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> What I read is that 8u71 has security fixes, but not 8u72, which they
told to be ''improvements''.
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> But as we are going directly to 8u72, this one deserves it.
As far as I understand, the process is this: (Open)JDK devs upload bug
fixes to the mercurial repository as they come, but CVE's are kept secret
until the next release. The releases then come in two pieces: 8u<n> has
only the security fixes, and 8u<n+1> adds the bug fixes.
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> The query
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[http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/query?priority=high&desc=1&order=id]
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> will make it easier for users and maintainers to follow just security
(almost all of them) or other important issue.
Good to know!
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> It is for helping others that I repeat some of what here wrote here.
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> I think you know most of it, so, sorry to bother you, Pierre.
Far from it. I really appreciate your explanation.
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