On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:09:21 GMT, Erik Joelsson <er...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> In principle I very much prefer locking down dependency versions to keep the 
> build as reliable as possible. Unfortunately, as we have experienced so far, 
> this isn't possible with GHA because the exact package versions aren't kept 
> available for very long. I suppose it would be possible with very diligent 
> watching for new versions and manually testing and updating before the old 
> version disappears, but that doesn't seem feasible in practice. On the other 
> hand, I don't think we have actually seen any problems when bumping the 
> versions so far, so I'm now inclined to agree with this change.

Maybe we could use 
[devkits](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/doc/building.md#cross-compiling-the-easy-way-with-openjdk-devkits)
 to pin the compiler version? I'm not sure how feasible that is in the GHA 
context. It might have a negative performance impact?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15374#issuecomment-1688203379

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