Hi, Since 7u4 is now generally available and the focus has shifted to 7u6, I'd like to outline the timeline for Oracle JDK 7u6. As always, I'd like to remind you that this is just a plan and that it can and probably will change before the release is done.
Feature work should be completed by mid May and after that the focus shifts to stabilizing the release. Up until mid June, the release is open for general bug fixes, but after that you should work on P1-P3 bugs only. In the beginning of July the inflow of bug fixes is restricted even further and all changes going in will require critical fix approval. I described how the critical fix approval process works back in February [1]. The same process will be used for 7u6. This means that the number of open bugs targeted to the release will gradually decrease and by the end of July there should be none left. All bugs should now either have been fixed or deferred out to another release. Finally I would also like to encourage you to either test the Oracle JDK 7u6 early access builds posted on java.net <http://java.net> or your own OpenJDK build and report issues to http://bugs.sun.com for the former or to the jdk7u-dev mailing list for the latter - if you run into any! Cheers, Edvard [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-February/001900.html
